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The book presents political biographies of seventeen political figures who played a significant role in the history of European integration: Germans, French, British, Czech, Austrian, Italian, Polish, and Russian. With their ideas, views and activities in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, they significantly influenced the development and formation of the modern model of a united democratic Europe. The rich and original specific historical material analysed and summarised in the book allows the reader to gain a deeper understanding of the main preconditions, stages, nature, problems and prospects of the European integration process. An unbiased assessment of the contribution of historical figures to the complex process of crystallisation of the European idea and its actual implementation, presented against the general background of the historical and geopolitical development of Europe in recent history, allows us to form an adequate idea of the complexity of European processes and, at the same time, to feel their human dimension, their living creative content.

The book is intended for politicians, historians, journalists, students, and anyone interested in the history and current state of development of a single "European home."