Four « Europe2040 » sessions on Youth Participation and Democracy by AEGEE & AAFB/LEAP – Special Franck Biancheri Award Youth is the group most concerned about the future and it is the group that has the highest potential for innovation. ...
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From the “American dream” to the “European hope”
I spent the past week debating the future of the European Union and transatlantic relations with nearly a thousand American citizens in Florida, Georgia, Indiana and finally Wisconsin. The exercise is new, but it has attracted a motivated and diverse ...
Read More »Joint declaration AEGEE-Europe, AAFB, LEAP2040 – From European Elections 2019 to Europe 2040: Making sure Europe’s nascent democracy serves the interests of the next generations
(To the attention of our political & civil society leaders) The 2019 European Elections enter into history as the first signal of ownership of the European project by citizens. The stop to falling turnout proves that the European election ...
Read More »Bringing Europeans to the Moon (Franck Biancheri, 2003)
The moon, the space, technologies, innovation have always fascinated Franck Biancheri. In 1986 he organised the first European space weekend. He was convinced that this kind of techological challenges are the one to bring together the Europeans. Through the realisation ...
Read More »The European project is not a dream, but a hope. It is rooted in rationality, which is not the case with dreams. (Franck Biancheri)
We Europeans have seen our dreams end in nightmares too often not to be suspicious. On the other hand, we hope that we can overcome the difficulties of our common future, without deluding ourselves of the difficulty of the task. ...
Read More »The EU, people, 4×4 and kilometers: Transparency, Democracy, Pedagogy, and Climate! (Franck Biancheri, 2005)
(french) Les nouvelles de ces dernières semaines l’illustre bien : les affaires européennes sont désormais les affaires des gens au quotidien. Ainsi, à la mi-Juillet, la Commission européenne a décidé de lancer une procédure visant à mettre en place d’ici ...
Read More »Closing a century of European civil Wars by Getting the Balkans into the EU…
… on July 28th 2014! by Franck Biancheri (2009) “If there is one possible enlargement, which directly fits with the original rationale of the European integration process started after World War II whose aim was to prevent European wars to ...
Read More »28 élections pour 1 Parlement? Une reprise des propositions de Franck Biancheri, IDE et Newropeans
(french) L’addition de “n” démocraties nationales ne fait pas “1” démocratie européenne. (Franck Biancheri, 1987) Le 4 juillet prochain, Ulrike Guérot, qui a bien connu Franck Biancheri sur son parcours, organise une conférence à Saarbrücken (Allemagne): “Realitätscheck Europawahl: 28 Wahlen ...
Read More »GEAB by LEAP: Banking system, oil, digital world… the end of our worlds facing the resistance to progress (June2019)
GEAB 136, 15/06/2019, Summary: ∴ 2010-2030: The disappearance of the European banking system as we knew it (Free excerpt) Reports are currently proliferating concerning the health of the European banking sector ten years after its great crisis.[1] However, on the ...
Read More »“Being a citizen is a voluntary act”. Franck Biancheri (2009)
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 ...
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