This article was written by Marie-Hélène Caillol, AAFB’s President. LEAP and Franck Biancheri heirs who are working on the political and democratic Euroland governance logic for 15 years now, can only be pleased with the fact that we hear talking ...
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Feed SubscriptionA short update on the Dutch election (Veronique Swinkels)
Dear friends a short update on the elections. The landslide to populism did not take place in the Netherlands but still there is a significant shift in power. The PVV (Geert Wilders) did win and is probably the 2nd largest ...
Read More »How Nigel plans to Trump the EU out of existence whilst Boris and Vladimir give a helping hand, by Adrian Taylor
any Europeans have never understood Nigel Farage. His objective was never just Brexit. His real ambition is the collapse of the European Union. Enter (soon to be) President Trump. He celebrated Brexit as “a great thing”. He has also repeatedly ...
Read More »“Once Erasmus, Always Erasmus? Not in My Case”. Thank you Zahia Guidoum Castiblanque, Aegee-Valencia
Dear Zahia, Thank you so much for your paper entitled “Once Erasmus, Always Erasmus”? Not in My Case” (The AEGEEAN – 26/01/2017) which challenges us strongly, we being the Friends of Franck Biancheri Association (AAFB) and knowing Franck was the ...
Read More »ERASMUS was most likely never to exist… (David Carayol, 2007)
As it seems we start already now to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Erasmus (adopted June 1987) we take this opportunity to talk about how Franck Biancheri and the AEGEE students launched the ERASMUS programme in 1987(1). A text written ...
Read More »The 10 Lessons from the election of Donald Trump (Cyril Castro, Nov. 22nd, 2016)
Cyril Castro is the President of Europe Populaire, a French political party, a partner of the N-Platform network launched in 2014 (with the support by the Association of Friends of Franck Biancheri) to help small and medium-sized political parties in ...
Read More »Brexit, Trump, populism: The “post-truth”, its accomplices and its antidote (José María Compagni Morales)
It could be said that we’re all accomplices of the so-called “post-truth”, although not to the same extent. But, what is the post-truth? The post-truth refers to circumstances in which emotions and personal beliefs are more determining when shaping public ...
Read More »The Lessons from Brexit (Henri de Courtivron)
The recent episode of Brexit emphatically highlighted many weaknesses and shortcomings which demonstrate that neither economics nor politics is an exact science – starting with the economic commentators, who, in their vast majority, asserted that the Brexit will not happen, ...
Read More »European Defense: a Challenge for European Democracy (Christel Hahn)
– No European army without European Democracy – Lets start with some fundamental thoughts and then go into European politics. An army is a democratic anachronism for two reasons: . can a state based upon democratic values send its sons ...
Read More »(Video) ERASMUS: When citizens build Europe – A gift from the AAFB to AEGEE-EUROPE, to commemorate their 30th anniversary!
Many events have been planned in the early months of 2015 to commemorate AEGEE-Europe’s 30th anniversary. In contribution to these celebrations, l’Association des Amis de Franck Biancheri, through “Franck Biancheri Year” label, enabled the realisation of significant events such as ...
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