The International Paneuropean Union, also referred to as the Pan-European Movement and the Pan-Europa Movement, is the oldest European unification movement. It began with the publishing of Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi's manifesto Paneuropa (1923), which presented the idea of a unified European State. The Union's General Secretariat is located in Munich, but it has branches in many European countries. The President of the Union since 2004 is Alain Terrenoire, former Member of Parliament in France and MEP and Director of the French Paneuropa-Union. Otto Habsburg became the International Honorary President of the International Paneuropean Union in 2004. Its Vice President is Walburga Habsburg Douglas, a member of the Swedish Parliament. Members As of January 2023, the Paneuropean Union consists of member organizations in 30 countries across Europe. Albania Andorra Austria Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Estonia Finland France Germany Hungary Italy Kosovo Latvia Luxembourg Montenegro North Macedonia Poland Portugal Romania San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Ukraine History Coudenhove-Kalergi, a member of the Bohemian Coudenhove-Kalergi family and the son of an Austro-Hungarian diplomat and a Japanese mother, was the organisation's central figure and President until his death in 1972. The organisation was prohibited by Nazi Germany in 1933, and was founded again after the Second World War. Winston Churchill lauded the movement's work for a unified Europe prior to the war in his famous Zurich speech in 1946. The French branch was founded by Georges Pompidou and Louis Terrenoire, subsequently French President and Minister for Information respectively, with the support of Charles de Gaulle. Otto von Habsburg, the head of the Habsburg dynasty and former Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, became involved with the Paneuropean Union in the 1930s, was elected its Vice President in 1957 and became its International President in 1973, after Coudenhove's death. The organisation was much reviled by the communist regimes of the Eastern Bloc. The organisation became renowned for its role in organising the Pan-European Picnic, an important event during the Revolutions of 1989. Presidents Members The Paneuropean Union lists the following as historical members: Konrad Adenauer Raymond Barre Léon Blum Aristide Briand Paul Claudel Benedetto Croce Albert Einstein Sigmund Freud Charles de Gaulle Alfons Goppel Otto von Habsburg Gerhart Hauptmann Bronisław Huberman Bruno Kreisky Paul Löbe Salvador de Madariaga Heinrich Mann Thomas Mann Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Fridtjof Nansen José Ortega y Gasset Georges Pompidou Rainer Maria Rilke Arthur Schnitzler Kurt