Actually, Orwell wrote an essay "Toward European Unity" http://orwell.ru/library/articles/European_Unity/english/e_teu http://orwell.ru/library/articles/Europea

Actually, Orwell wrote an essay "Toward European Unity" http://orwell.ru/library/articles/European_Unity/english/e_teu http://orwell.ru/library/articles/European_Unity/english/e_t... in which he explicitly argues for something like the EU: > the spectacle of a community where people are relatively free and happy and where the main motive in life is not the pursuit of money or power. In other words, democratic Socialism must be made to work throughout some large area. But the only area in which it could conceivably be made to work, in any near future, is Western Europe. Apart from Australia and New Zealand, the tradition of democratic Socialism can only be said to exist — even there it only exists precariously — in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, the Low Countries, France, Britain, Spain, and Italy. Only in those countries are there still large numbers of people to whom the word ‘Socialism’ has some appeal, and for whom it is bound up with liberty, equality, and internationalism. [...] Therefore a Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today.