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2020, here we are. A key year for Franck Biancheri. A year that he will unfortunately not have been able to achieve, to close his Europe 2020 initiative himself and the historic challenge launched to all Europeans to organise and ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Its time for the EU to be a power project” … writes the Irish Times today 08/10/2019, “The emerging world order will increasingly be shaped by might, rather than law“… This is so far away from the ideas Franck Biancheri ...

I could witness how Jacques Chirac was a particularly effective communicator in this type of exercise. On the evening of 7 April, however, to convince, he will also need to have a clear vision of the EU he wants to ...

The idea of creating AEGEE-EUROPE was not then just to create a new European student movement, but rather to initiate an entirely new approach to the construction of Europe by starting off with young people and citizens, skirting around the ...

Back to school! So, the question that cannot be ignored: what will this European return to school look like? A short editorial by Franck Biancheri from 04/09/2007. Look for and find similarities and differences with what Franck described 12 years ...