My main serious worry is that if we cannot rapidly democratise the EU political process and leave enlargement crush the less rich segment of our societies, then the dark side of Europe will emerge as the dominant trans-European political force, ...
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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 »A successful enlargement of the EU! How to avoid having the Copenhagen Summit go down in history as a missed opportunity – Franck Biancheri, 2002
While France and Germany celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, and the European Commission is lulling towards a rapid enlargement to the Balkans, it is good to re-read the recommendations of Franck Biancheri made in December 2002 on ...
Read More »12-13 December 2002, Copenhagen Summit: A new chapter of European History – by Franck Biancheri (2002)
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. ...
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