“Being a citizen is a voluntary act”. Franck Biancheri (2009)

2019-06-10 0 FB Doc Selection

No one will pay citizens for democracy … it’s a citizen’s effort, it’s a citizen’s contribution, because in the end it is the interest of the citizens to be able to control the power… Democracy if it is not the ...

Little political comments from a Euro-Citizen (4): Democracy at stake, from Russia to the European constitution – Franck Biancheri (2004)

2019-06-05 0 FB Doc Selection

In March 2004 Putin was re-elected President of Russia for a second 4-years term. In September 2004 after the Beslan tragedy (1 st-3rd of September, school hostage massacre in Beslan, Russia, that ended with the death of at least 334 ...

Can the European Union succeed without the emergence of a European ‘demos’? (Franck Biancheri, 2004)

2019-05-23 0 FB Doc Selection

(french) Le sentiment d’exclusion du jeu démocratique communautaire, renforcé par la «balkanisation» du débat politique européen, fragmenté en 25 débats nationaux, conduit les citoyens européens à développer l’idée qu’il va leur falloir choisir entre Europe et Démocratie Une immense dépression ...

Erasmus, the European antidote to withdrawal (Le Monde, 14/05/2019)

2019-05-14 0 FB Doc Selection

Le Monde, 14/05/2019 (original french) – “A documentary follows the thread of more than thirty years of existence of the most beautiful machine to produce integration… A few days before the European elections on 26 May, a documentary proposed by ...

On 9 May, Europe Day, the history of the European Community is at a turning point: for the first time, its citizens will be able to vote for the same political programme in several countries. European elections 1989

2019-05-09 0 FB Doc Selection

On May 9, 1989, 30 years ago, Philippe Portalier, founding member and candidate of the IDE list in France and founding member of the AAFB, signed the editorial of IDE’s Info newsletter n°11. In 1989 IDE was the very first ...

Eurocitizens versus National Parties· The Match is commenced! (Franck Biancheri, 1989)

2019-05-09 0 FB Doc Selection

Franck BIANCHERI’ speech at the IDE-II congress in Evry (France) on Saturday, April the 8th. 1989, for the official launch of the European elections campaign in which IDE participated as the first ever trans-European political party in 3 countries of ...

Demain OLAF ne sera toujours pas un vrai Viking (Franck Biancheri, 2005)

2019-05-06 0 FB Doc Selection

(french) – En fait, ce patron d’OLAF ne doit surtout rien avoir à faire avec les Vikings et leur légendaire courage. C’est même tout l’enjeu de la recherche de ce nouveau patron pour l’Office Européen de Lutte Anti-Fraude (OLAF), chargé ...

Anne Hidalgo declares “I am in favour of voting from the age of 16 and we are going to experiment with it in Paris” (AAFB in brief)

2019-04-11 0 IDE / Newropeans

Voting right from the age of 16 to vote for European elections, a proposal that was on Newropeans’ agenda for European elections in 2009! On the occasion of the European elections, young people aged 16 to 18 will be ...

“Founders” think the future without being blinded by the past or future

2019-03-20 0 FB Doc Selection

Jean Monnet, the inspirator and leading architect of the project, had to fight to overcome resistances, conformism, habits, and impose the foundations of the Community architecture and method. This quote is taken from an article by Franck Biancheri of 19 ...

Little political comments from a Euro-citizen (3) – Franck Biancheri (2004)

2019-03-08 0 FB Doc Selection

Barely 6 weeks after the European elections, the spectacle of the EU political system becomes pathetic. Once again, a combined election between the EPP and the PES to share the influence and financial resources allocated to the groups dominating the ...