Amounting to 3,000 CHF net per month in addition to the reimbursement of expenses for the journey (place of residence – Lausanne – place of residence), the Henri Rieben Scholarship of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe (FJME) is put ...
Read More »24 Europeans socio-economic proposals: A Common European Solidarity – Newropeans 2007
“The economy has been used successfully as the driver of integration by the EU governments. But today, many citizens feel that economic processes are out of reach, that the political has vanished in the face of a technocratic and intransparent ...
Read More »NATO, gone with the wind … of history! Franck Biancheri, 2008
Original French: OTAN en emporte le vent … de l’Histoire! French President Emmanuel Macron is neither the first nor the only one to question the usefulness of NATO, even if his words have frightened the French media (professional propagandists in ...
Read More »EU 25: Bringing democracy to new frontiers. Franck Biancheri (2004)
My main serious worry is that if we cannot rapidly democratise the EU political process and leave enlargement crush the less rich segment of our societies, then the dark side of Europe will emerge as the dominant trans-European political force, ...
Read More »WANTED! “Oldies” but “Goldies”
Met Franck Biancheri in the past? Participated in some of his actions? The Franck Biancheri memorial organisation (AAFB) is interested in having YOU in the “Eurocitizens Generation 1985-2020 Directory” we are compiling. You just have to fill in this form: ...
Read More »GEAB 139, November 2019 – Global systemic crisis – 2020: The beginning of the stabilisation phase
A provocative title for the last GEAB at a time when the media are announcing the end of the world, chaos, and focus on “ecological catastrophes, popular discontent, risks of war and the financial crisis of 2020”. But as the ...
Read More »The grand opening: on whom will the bricks of the Berlin Wall fall? Franck Biancheri, 1989
Even before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Franck Biancheri, who with AEGEE, had crossed European roads and therefore crossed the Wall and the Iron Curtain (notably with AEGEE-Berlin and by bus for more than 30 hours), called on Western ...
Read More »Europe’s destiny is escaping the two “Greats” and it will come knocking on the door of the Europeans
Defining and implementing this common European policy is a way of brightening up the Community’s surroundings and thus helping destiny to find its way. Otherwise it risks getting lost and entering the fake and pastoral setting of the “European common ...
Read More »In memoriam Franck Biancheri
The history of Europe is like a multifaceted diamond. Everyone sees the same diamond… but no one sees exactly the same facets. This quote from Franck Biancheri, who died 7 years ago, on 30 October 2012, also applies to his ...
Read More »Balkans need an european global vision and not a cherry picking strategy
An article by Euractiv France halts EU enlargement... (16/10/2019) where you can read: “Only France blocked North Macedonia, while the Netherlands and Denmark backed Skopje but opposed Tirana’s bid. Finland proposed Albania’s case to be separated from that of North ...
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