French prime minister Guy Mollet's perspective on Eurafrique, by contrast, was paternalistic. [fact]
French prime minister Guy Mollet's perspective on Eurafrique, by contrast, was paternalistic. In 1957 he said that "all of Europe will be called upon to help in the development of Africa." Mollet's formulation recalled that of the father of the Pan-European Movement, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, who had coined the term "Eurafrique" in 1929, proposing that the common project of creating arable land and curing disease in Africa would bring European powers together. This angle on Eurafrique more clearly echoed the sentiment of the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 when the European colonies expressed their unity in the common project of suppressing slavery and bringing free trade to Africa, in what Carl Schmitt calls the "last common land-appropriation of non-European soil by the European powers."
Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 641