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, ...
Read More »European parties: the Chinese shadow puppets of European democracy
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 ...
Read More »Summer reading: Global development, a hot summer 2018, CAP, trends … on the menu of GEAB126 (15/06/2018)
The latest issue of the Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin, GEAB 126, is ready. We invite you to read the public release here: “2020-2040: Exponential Global Development“. Enjoy! The GEAB, a LEAP2020 publication, was launched in 2006 by Franck Biancheri, research ...
Read More »Franck Biancheri Award 2018 Aegee-Salerno: “Representation Needs Participation: European Elections” – Results booklet
The conference “Representation Needs Participation: European Elections” took place from the 13th to 15th of April 2018 in Salerno. It took part as an activity related to the Franck Biancheri Award granted to AEGEE-Salerno and was co-organised with the Civic ...
Read More »“Only one country comes back… and everything is repopulated! The return of Spain to Europe relaunches European integration”. Franck Biancheri, 2003 (French)
With the EU under the control of anti-democratic and xenophobic forces: We will have Europe; but we will have lost democracy! Le rejet par les Espagnols d’une politique qui les éloignait de l’Europe et les entraînait dans les chimères ...
Read More »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.
Franck Biancheri: “Size does not matter any more in the EU” (30/01/2003)
Read More »“Size does not matter any more in the EU” – Franck Biancheri, 2003
Paris, 30/01/2003– Franco – German proposals, Commission or Council, rotating or stable Council Presidency, structure of the European Parliament, … most of the European debate seems to be seen through the prism of Member States size. But ‘Small or ...
Read More »Franck Biancheri Award: Opening speech in Salerno (It) by Prof. Virgilio D’Antonio
Personalities like Biancheri today are lacking, they lack a lot, in Europe but not only in Europe. On April 13th, Prof. Virgilio D’Antonio, Rector’s Delegate to International Relations, of the University of Salerno, welcomed the 5th edition of the FB-Award ...
Read More »Franck Biancheri’s friends pay tribute to Nicole Fontaine, citizen for Europe, former president of the European Parliament
“A Union that is sick by its deficit of democracy” – For Nicole Fontaine, among the causes of the crisis in Europe: technocracy, ultraliberalism, the lack of leadership that led to the mismanagement of several crises (Greek, migration, etc.) but ...
Read More »A feedback on the activities of the Friends of Franck Biancheri for a month: Salerno, Brussels, Krakow, Milan, Bergamo, Paris
In one month the association of the Friends of Franck Biancheri was welcomed on various events in Europe. A tour in pictures: ■ From 13 to 15 April: FB Award 2018 in Salerno on the subject “Representation NEEDS participation” The ...
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