For example in Romania, Italy, etc. I know of the “Latin Union” which promotes co-operation between Romance-speaking countries, and Slavs have the ideology of Pan-Slavism, though I don’t know if there are organizations promotic Slavic unity, and I also don’t know of organizations promoting Germanic unity.
In Hungary, there are organizations promoting Finno-Ugric unity, educating people about Finnish and Estonian culture, and government-sponsored Pan-Turkic organizations promoting unity with Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan for Turanists (who believe Hungarian is a Turkic language, not Finno-Ugric).
Popularity is not very high of these organizations as to my knowledge, except for the Finnish-Hungarian Friendship Circle which was popular in the 80s and 90s.
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Germanic, not at all. North Germanic, kind of (but really it tends to be more “Nordic”). Nordic cooperation is taken for granted here.
An “organization promoting Germanic unity” is something that’d soon raise red flags here. Possibly featuring a white circle and black windmill shape.
Not really. I hadn’t even heard of the Latin Union and it seems it disbanded in 2012.
Closest to that would be the CPLP but that’s within Portuguese speaking countries and a large part of the impetus for that came from the Portuguese speaking African countries who had already created their own inter-state organization, the PALOP.
Nordic cooperation groups are quite popular but ethno linguistic ones not so much.
Turanism is not popular at all because Finns don’t see themselves as being related to the turks, which fair enough we aren’t. Not to mention the fact that due to politics, Finns are as of now very much not fans of Turkey and Hungary.
As for Finnic groups, these were very popular before and during ww2, but have since died out. The nationalist idea of a “Greater Finland” was popular especially by nationalists and some political leaders. This idea was at least partly to blame for our involvement in the German invasion of the USSR. But these ideas have died out, Mainly because essentially every major Finnc group outside Finns and Estonians got a bit genocided by Stalin.
> promoting Germanic unity.
Nope, not a thing. I don’t think it ever was, since Germanic covers so many different languages.
Except for maybe some crude 19th century racial theories and made up shared history.
Pan-German was a thing in the early 19th century, beginning with the fall of the HRE and it’s aftermath, culminating in the unification wars, [were Bismarck forged the the 2nd Empire in blood and iron](https://i.imgur.com/IfGJ8xh.png) until it’s [proclamation in Versailles](https://i.redd.it/c5jwd8mn0yw21.png).
Nowadays, the only ones still celebrating a pan-German idea are some fringe groups like those [old school fraternities](https://www.bpb.de/cache/images/1/256891_original.jpg?AACFD)
WRT cultural exchange, the public broadcasters of West Germany, Switzerland and Austria founded a joint TV station in 1984, called 3SAT. It’s focused on culture, some science shows and broadcasts the news shows from all 3 countries.
I guess it was unique before satellite TV took off, but nowadays I could watch most Austrian and Swiss TV programmes, if I wanted to.
Germanic union sounds quite nazi. Otherwise I don’t see the point. Flemish people have little in common with Norwegians for example. The same linguistic ancestors doesn’t mean a lot.
Panslavism is an excuse for Russian imperialism so I can see why it’s not popular anymore.