Economist.com | European unity: "Hitler told the Reichstag in 1936, �It is not very intelligent to imagine that in such a cramped house like that of Europe, a community of peoples can maintain different legal systems and different concepts of law for long.� Mussolini urged in 1933 that, �Europe may once again grasp the helm of world civilisation if it can develop a modicum of political unity.� Oswald Mosley, the leading British fascist of the 1930s, was also a champion of the idea of European union. "