A Portuguese poem for Europe (1945): the European ideal of Adolfo Casais Monteiro

Abstract

As part of this work, we only restrict this analysis to the period immediately before the war, i.e. from 1939, when she prepares to start. We wish to show that the European Union projects, presented with great breath in previous decades as a result of the first world war, were not merely circumstantial. Before the world war still exist these ideas to unite Europe, achieved through the presentation of specific proposals, presented at various levels, not being "utopias" of intellectuals or even isolated politicians who dream of a "Europe whole and free".In the twenty-first century, Europe is still an unfinished work, a "dream unfulfilled." Despite sixty years of European construction, and the actual achievements made, the European project, announced soon after the First World War, and implemented by the "method of small steps” after the second conflict, still remains valid. Europe is still Europe, future dream, as prophetically announced Adolfo Casais Monteiro.