“Without effective administration, i.e. suited to its environment and the demands of its time, the power of politicians is empty and democracy becomes a parody”

2019-02-01 0 Quote of the month

Franck Biancheri, 10/07/2000 – in “The EU from 2000 to 2020: Handling the transition”

Four or five years ago, people had questions about Europe; now they have opinions and wish to express them …

2019-01-03 0 Quote of the month

… The Single Market, the Euro, enlargement, Turkey, the Iraq crisis … all these breaks (and that is what they represent for most citizens, whether in their daily lives or in their visions of the world) have considerably increased the ...

the European citizenship can not be decreed…

2018-11-01 0 Quote of the month

The European citizen can only be born out of the conjunction of three factors: the will of the national citizens responsible for becoming responsible European citizens (themselves and their own children); the will of institutions and leaders to stimulate the ...

Antidemocratic and xenophobic forces of Europe have always been attracted by the European unity dream, mystic of the imperial Rome…

2018-09-11 0 IDE / Newropeans

Contrary to what appearances make us believe, antidemocratic and xenophobic parties are not necessarily anti-European, they can even be very pro-European. in: How Europe could end up in the hands of the post modern great grand sons of Hitler, Franco, Mussolini ...

Every state is a minority in the EU… In any case, let’s not forget that if all our states went into building the EU … it is because they all felt too small to face alone both their future and the rest of the world.

2018-06-06 0 Quote of the month

Franck Biancheri: “Size does not matter any more in the EU” (30/01/2003)

EU-budget: Neo-liberal policies killed the process by leaving big corporations free to cash in the profits without giving back taxes, nor jobs in the net contributors countries. No surprise that therefore citizens in the same countries start to be reluctant to keep on paying.

2018-05-04 0 Quote of the month

Franck Biancheri in “Three lies about the EU budget which our politicians keep on using” (06/12/2005)

The euro is only an instrument…

2018-04-03 0 Quote of the month

… neutral in itself. lt is therefore useless to reject it out of hand or to praise it to the skies. lt will serve Europe according to how the politicians and peoples of Europe use it. lt could prove a ...

The current lack of respect for (European) diversity steadily increases the number of people worried about the Community process, even starting in winning numbers of young people and pro-Europeans

2018-03-07 0 Quote of the month

Franck Biancheri in “Europe: Community or Empire? Elements of reflection and principles of action for future European citizens“, a path-breaking historical book by Franck Biancheri written in 1992 – published by Editions Anticipolis

Democracy is first and foremost the people’s affair -it is not civil servants who will explain to their people that they are wrong…

2018-02-02 0 Quote of the month

Franck Biancheri, 06-02-2000, in “Austria, a lesson for the EU“

“An empire is always providing platforms where conflicts and wars proliferate… an empire needs enemies, whilst a Community requires partners”

2017-12-14 0 Quote of the month

in, “EUROPE : COMMUNITY OR EMPIRE? Elements of reflection and principles of action for future European citizens” a path-breaking historical book by Franck Biancheri written in 1992, published by éditions Anticipolis (Dec. 2017) and now available in English

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