Marie-Hélène Caillol, our president and director of LEAP2040, will speak alongside Jerome CREEL (OFCE), Lewis DIJKSTRA (REGIO) on the next online conference « Populisms, democracy, Europe » organised by the UEF groupe Europe, in collaboration with european-citizen.eu plateform and GRASPE, ...
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Feed SubscriptionThe grand opening: on whom will the bricks of the Berlin Wall fall? Franck Biancheri, 1989
Even before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Franck Biancheri, who with AEGEE, had crossed European roads and therefore crossed the Wall and the Iron Curtain (notably with AEGEE-Berlin and by bus for more than 30 hours), called on Western ...
Read More »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 »The EU, people, 4×4 and kilometers: Transparency, Democracy, Pedagogy, and Climate! (Franck Biancheri, 2005)
(french) es 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 »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)
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 ...
Read More »Little political comments from a Euro-citizen (1) – Franck Biancheri (2004)
With an average of a dozen conferences in 3/5 different European countries per month, in front of audiences ranging from students to diplomats, from farmers to metropolitan elites, from NGO activists to businessmen, I believe that I am collecting an ...
Read More »Newropeans and the global financial, economic and social crisis: Public Money should serve to ensure the future of all Europeans and not only the one of the financial elites
In anticipation of the crisis of the Euro and more particularly of the Greek crisis that in 2010 hit hard the EU (its institutions and leaders) but especially the Europeans, Franck Biancheri, president of Newropeans, pleaded for the establishment of ...
Read More »Political anticipation – LEAP’s change of horizon: from 2020-2040
GEAB 131 – 15/01/2019 Exactly twenty years ago, in 1999, under the leadership of Franck Biancheri, we launched Project Europe 2020[1] in Athens – a project to reinvent Europe along the lines of democratisation, efficiency, transparency, sustainability and connection to ...
Read More »It’s time to bring down the “Paris Wall” (Franck Biancheri, 2005) – French
With thirteen years ahead Franck Biancheri announced the Yellow Vests crisis. The problem [of the suburbs] thus also essentially rests on the revival of democracy, which requires the elites to respond to the expectations of citizens and the problems of ...
Read More »The Friends of Franck Biancheri wish you a happy new year 2019!
Franck Biancheri at the Evry Congress in May 1989 for the launch of the European campaign of IDE, Initiative for a European Democracy, the first trans-European political party to successfully present trans-European lists and a program in Spain, France and ...
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