05/06/2003 – In the past months, some of you – and I wish to thank them for that – did me the honor to join a panel in one of the 100 conferences of the Newropeans Democracy Marathon. Two months before the end of this Marathon, and a month only before the end of your …
… in fine, we can say on the 6 th of October that, because of the probable positive report on Turkey, the Commission will be responsible for “killing” the project that was the European Constitution. The ultimate irony being that Turkey will still not enter the European Union for decades to come![divider] Initially the title …
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen I was 23, in 1988, I spent a year in Cairo, Egypt. At the time, the Europeans were laughing at the Egyptian information system focused on declarations, encounters and shaken hands of the state’s supreme leader, Hosni Mubarak. Nowadays, 30 years later, it is clear that, as a public debate, the microphones of the …
Piketty’s „Pour un traité de démocratisation de l’Europe“, which is available in french since March, has just been released in german as „Für ein anderes Europa“ (for a different Europe). The subtitle of the german book clarifies, that the book presents a „Treaty for the Democratisation of the Eurozone“1, a very specific project, which of …
Emmanuel Macron’s recent speech in Athens puts on the table the great political challenges facing the EU. Rebuilding citizens’ trust, democratising the EU, opening the European election to trans-European lists, politically refounding the Eurozone… These ideas are truly echoeing another speech, delivered 20 years ago, in Athens too, by Franck Biancheri, at the time when, …
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Because future belongs to European ideas and projects in politics as well as in other domains (Franck Biancheri in “Eurocitoyens versus national parties, the game has started” – 1987) I will not even mention the link to the article “Transnational Lists, a false good idea”, published by the Taurillon, to which I decided to react …
The world was totally shocked and horrified by the disastrous show caused by Hurricane Katrina. A different America was exposed there… Beyond the material damage, the human misery emerged from the TV broadcasted images… and the revelation of the weaknesses of the American governance, which took a long time to figure out the magnitude of …
We are pleased to publish below the report of the conference “Education for the present, Democracy for the future“, which was organized from 21st to 23rd April by the antenna Aegee-Budapest, winner of the Franck Biancheri Award 2017, in collaboration with Aegee-Europe’s Civic Education working group, and attended by Marie-Hélène Caillol, AAFB President, Marianne Ranke-Cormier …
crédit photo Franck Biancheri Documentation On July 1st and 2nd, the Franck Biancheri Network in partnership with iCAN, the city of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve and numerous partners organised the kick off event for the #CitizensRoute73 – Horizon 2019 European Election. Following Franck Biancheri’s 30 years battle for the democratisation of Europe political path, European citizens, actors of …
We should not be afraid to give appropriate place to the concepts of identity, nation and national identity to prevent them from running away with the identity providers towards large spaces “illuminated with horror”i. My wallpaper: Europe with the so-called migration crisis, but particularly the lack of solidarity among European nations in the process of …
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