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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Let’s not be ashamed of Europe” said Nathalie Loiseau, French Minister for European Affairs, in Strasbourg on 7 September, for the inauguration of the 86th European Fair. She calls for the defense of the “progressive front” that Emmanuel Macron wants ...

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 ...

Franck Biancheri, november 1998 Antidemocratic and xenophobic forces of Europe have always been attracted by the European unity dream, mystic of the imperial Rome… Contrary to what appearances make us believe, antidemocratic and xenophobic parties are not necessarily anti-European, they ...

Franck Biancheri, 03/01/2005 With its enlargement to ten poorer countries, the European Union is investing in the future as the gap widens in the United States between poor and rich states … I have always had some reservations about the ...

Franck Biancheri, 07/12/2004 Trump Administration Leaving U.N. Human Rights Council?  Many are worried about US President Donald Trump’s idea of “boycotting” the UN. But the divorce between the United Nations and the United States is not new. Already in 2004, ...

Franck Biancheri, 08/02/2004  The EPP (European People’s Party) crisis, which the Fidesz (Hungarian conservative right-wing party of Viktor Orban), of which it is a member, threatens to leave (EUobserver: Orban to EPP: turn ‘Christian democratic’ or face challenge) -and therefore jeopardizes ...