‘The “Union Charlemagne” should […] be established not as an economical union but as a six-state confederacy: Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg. We are dealing with no less than the renewal of the Karolinger Empire on a democratic, federal and social basis. […] Therefore I appeal to all those of good will to bring a movement to life for the total reconciliation between the Germans and the French through the renewal of the Empire of Charlemagne as a confederacy of free nations. Today this Charlemagne movement should stem from Aachen in the memory of that German–French emperor, to transform Europe from a battlefield of recurring world wars to a peaceful and blooming worldly empire of free people!’