Defining and implementing this common European policy is a way of brightening up the Community’s surroundings and thus helping destiny to find its way. Otherwise it risks getting lost and entering the fake and pastoral setting of the “European common ...
Read More »European International Policy: Its time for the EU to become internationally the most influential player
“Its time for the EU to be a power project” … writes the Irish Times today 08/10/2019, “The emerging world order will increasingly be shaped by might, rather than law“… This is so far away from the ideas Franck Biancheri ...
Read More »Meeting with Jacques Chirac: from Newropeans2000 to the French referendum on the European Constitution.
I could witness how Jacques Chirac was a particularly effective communicator in this type of exercise. On the evening of 7 April, however, to convince, he will also need to have a clear vision of the EU he wants to ...
Read More »EU: full speed ahead towards a mess – Franck Biancheri, 2007
Back to school! So, the question that cannot be ignored: what will this European return to school look like? A short editorial by Franck Biancheri from 04/09/2007. Look for and find similarities and differences with what Franck described 12 years ...
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 »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 »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 »Little political comments from a Euro-Citizen (4): Democracy at stake, from Russia to the European constitution – Franck Biancheri (2004)
In March 2004 Putin was re-elected President of Russia for a second 4-years term. In September 2004 after the Beslan tragedy (1 st-3rd of September, school hostage massacre in Beslan, Russia, that ended with the death of at least 334 ...
Read More »“Let us dare the future as the founding fathers of Europe did”
Jean Monnet, the inspirator and leading architect of the project, had to fight to overcome resistances, conformism, habits, and impose the foundations of the Community architecture and method. Franck Biancheri in “Switching from EU to Euroland. Daring the future as ...
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