“When the baby-boomer generation will give way to millennials, the support of populism should also decline,” says Steven Pinker, American linguist and psychologist in his latest book “Enlightenment now” (see L’Echo.be, 26/10/2018). Not so sure … This statement certainly echoes ...
Read More »Towards a European Prosperity Pact in place of the Stability Pact (Franck Biancheri, 2003)
The Italian budget for 2019 refused? Never mind, this Italian budget is the answer to the austerity stubbornness of the European institutions (Le Taurillon, 30/10/2018) and their obsession as “account managers” to hold on the strict application of an updated ...
Read More »[25 years of the Maastricht Treaty] 1992, the Community at a crossroads. When Franck Biancheri denounced the risks of imperialist drifts of Europe
His book, EUROPE: COMMUNUTY OR EMPIRE? Elements of reflection and principles of action for future European citizens (1992, Editions Anticipolis), deals in particular with the risks inherent of the Maastricht Treaty, which entered into force 25 years ago, on 1st November ...
Read More »In the media: “Year’s delay for Commission paper on communicating with citizens” (EUobserver, 31/10/2018)
As if there was time to lose… … knowing that that’s what #LEAP2020 was working on with the institutions in the framework of the “EU governance 2020” project tightly linked with the EC Task Force on “Governance reform” back in ...
Read More »[Archives Newropeans] NEWROPEANS MANIFESTO (2005)
Newropeans, the First trans-European political movement … because the EU is too important to be left in the hands of national parties and of bureaucrats… Newropeans, a political movement with a self-decided “limited life-span”, which is also destined to prevent ...
Read More »[Archives Newropeans] Flyers 2007 for the first ever trans-European political movement: European citizens, European democracy, European politics…
You will find below the first leaflets of Newropeans for the European campaign of 2009, these had been published in several languages, here English, French, German, Italian and Dutch. Newropeans campaign for the 2009 European elections was, after IDE (Initiative ...
Read More »[Archives Newropeans] A Newropeans’ Unique European Electoral law proposal (UEEL), 2010
Since the ECSC Treaties (later taken up under various treaties and in particular the Act of 20 September 1976 on Direct Elections to the European Parliament), the European Parliament had been given the task of drawing up draft “A uniform ...
Read More »The “European public space” is a fiction invented by academics and technocrats (Franck Biancheri, 2005)
A few months before the European elections it is time to rest, as Franck Biancheri did in 2005, some questions about communication policies at the european and national level at the cost of tens of millions of Euros and which ...
Read More »Communication strategies’ cannot solve anymore the communication deficit’ of the EU institutions (by Franck Biancheri, 2005)
First, I cannot prevent myself to look at it as the 4th or 5th ‘new communication strategy’ of the Commission towards citizens that I know of since I started my European activities 20 years ago. Almost each new Commission decides ...
Read More »[new in our archives] Reto2030 “El futuro de la ciencia europea, en sus manos” (the future of European sciences in their hands) El Pais, 28/04/2010
In April 2010 the Spanish Presidency of the EU launched the project “Citizen Agenda for Science and Innovation”, “Reto2030” (Challenges2030), inviting 14 European experts, mathematicians, physicists, biologists, astronomers, architects, neuroscientists, doctors and others to present their challenge for the future ...
Read More »