[:en](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 für 1 Parlament?” (Retour sur les élections européennes: 28 élections pour 1 Parlement?), sous le …
The current lack of respect for this diversity steadily increases the number of people worried about the Community process, even starting, as evidenced by the difficulties encountered by the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty, in winning numbers of young people and pro-Europeans [dropcap]P[/dropcap]lurality is not the difference, because it is the multiple expression of a …
On 7 February 2018, the European Parliament, while the proposal was on the table, did not vote for the establishment of transnational lists and rejected any reflection on the creation of a single European constituency for the 2019 European elections and beyond. The national parties that occupy the European Parliament, convinced that the “alliances” by …
The common democracy must adopt European reasoning: common market -> single market -> single currency -> single democracy The exlcusive character of the politico-administrative engine in the European construction needs to be changed. There is urgent need to replace the “top-down” method by a “bottom-up” one, to include people in the European game. The common …
The association Citoyennes pour l’Europe has conducted a series of video interviews with 12 influential women in Europe in different fields (culture, science, youth, politics, …). As part of these talks they were invited to present what is their fight for Europe. Our president, Marie-Hélène Caillol, also president of LEAP2020 and coordinator of the Steering Committee …
This is not the end of History; but the end of a story: the unification process of European continent Our fathers and grandfathers did succeed in peacefully unifying the continent, we have to prove that it can be democratically governed. If we fail, ‘reunited Europe’ could pretty fast become a democratic nightmare and will not …
What is this caricature of democracy in which one is supposed to have only one rational, moral, intelligent, responsible choice, the other choice being the one made by idiots and bad guys? The fundamental criticism expressed by Franck Biancheri in 1992, remained dead letter, so that “the democratic imposture” became a real “betrayal of the …
On the eve of the next e-Tribune “Constitution and/or Democratization?”, organised by #CitizensRoute on December 6th, and to serve as foodforthought for the debates to come, we propose this article by Franck Biancheri “Yes to the Constitution … But not without Democracy” written September 2004. This text was written on the occasion of the launch …
A la veille du prochain e-débat “Constitution et/ou Démocratisation?” organisé le 6 décembre par #CitizensRoute, dont le réseau Franck Biancheri est partenaire, nous choisissons de republier aujourd’hui cet articles de Franck “Oui à la Constitution… Mais avec la Démocratie en plus” (10 septembre 2004) qui avait été écrit à l’occasion du lancement de la campagne …
[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 …
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