전후 트랜스내셔널 ‘서구(Abendland)’ 운동을 통해 본 유럽통합

Abstract

The central piece of the postwar Abendland movement was European integration. The historical origin of this European vision can be found in the idea of Abendland itself, which departs from the ideal of the Sacrum Imperium of the Middle Age. However, the path, on which the postwar Abendland movement had walked down as an organization in the process of its transformation into an European integration movement was extremely rugged. The so-called CEDI was cast to European stage when it was launched, and thereafter had to switch its partners multiple times in order to survive as an organization in the middle of the stormy conjuncture of the Cold War era. Its agenda was much more transnational, compared to another European movement organization based in West-Germany, i.e. Europa-Union, which belonged to the main stream movement aiming at founding a United States of Europe. The clearest transnationality of the CEDI lies in its persistent focus on the Central and Eastern Europe and the political goal of setting this region free from the Soviet’s claw.
 The decisive move of the CEDI towards this ultimate goal was the organizational merge with Paneuropean Union in 1972. The CEDI already restored its ancient pivot of the Abendland, i.e. the Central and Eastern Europe, as its main agenda through the collaboration with De Gaul France government, and it did not lose sight of this pivot again even after they split. Eventually since the CEDI merged with PEU, it properly start collaborating with the expellee’s association in West-Germany and its efforts to realize the agenda of ‘christliches Großeuropa’ led to the historical event, the Paneuropean Picnic in 1989, which made the first kick to tear down the iron curtain.