15/02/2019 – The gradual disappearance of the previous world order’s straitjackets of stability (international organisations, treaties, alliances, various regulations…) is becoming alarming. Will this alarm act as a spur or will it turn out to be a bad counsellor? That ...
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Feed SubscriptionCatherine Bernicchia: “Europe2014-2018” a teaching project of memory to Veterans born with the complicity of Franck Biancheri
For more than seven years, Catherine Bernicchia, initiator and coordinator, has been running the project europe20142018. It took flight in these times of Anniversary of the Centenary of the Great War, a time of memory for its soldiers and a ...
Read More »Franck Biancheri: ’How to run the EU in 2020 ?’ – Executive summary of the launch seminar in Paris (1999)
From July 1st to 7th, the AEGEE-Angers antenna is organising a week-long event on the theme “Being Franck Biancheri in 2019 … imagine the horizont 2040” (Franck Biancheri Award 2019). In the perspective of this event, but also in the ...
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 »Europe: Countdowns are on!
GEAB 130 – 15/12/2018 The ‘yellow vests’ (FR), the pro- and anti-Brexit protests (UK), the German political crisis (DE), the Catalan independence movement (SP), the budget battle (IT), the labour law reform (HU), the Marrakesh agreement and ministerial reshuffle (BE)… ...
Read More »A Europe stronger than America
Franck Biancheri, 03/01/2005 With its enlargement to ten poorer countries, the European Union is investing in the future as the gap widens in the United States between poor and rich states … I have always had some reservations about the ...
Read More »It’s time to move the UN headquarter from New-York to Geneva
Franck Biancheri, 07/12/2004 Trump Administration Leaving U.N. Human Rights Council? Many are worried about US President Donald Trump’s idea of “boycotting” the UN. But the divorce between the United Nations and the United States is not new. Already in 2004, ...
Read More »“Only one country comes back… and everything is repopulated! The return of Spain to Europe relaunches European integration”. Franck Biancheri, 2003 (French)
With the EU under the control of anti-democratic and xenophobic forces: We will have Europe; but we will have lost democracy! Le rejet par les Espagnols d’une politique qui les éloignait de l’Europe et les entraînait dans les chimères ...
Read More »“Size does not matter any more in the EU” – Franck Biancheri, 2003
Paris, 30/01/2003– Franco – German proposals, Commission or Council, rotating or stable Council Presidency, structure of the European Parliament, … most of the European debate seems to be seen through the prism of Member States size. But ‘Small or ...
Read More »Franck Biancheri’s friends pay tribute to Nicole Fontaine, citizen for Europe, former president of the European Parliament
“A Union that is sick by its deficit of democracy” – For Nicole Fontaine, among the causes of the crisis in Europe: technocracy, ultraliberalism, the lack of leadership that led to the mismanagement of several crises (Greek, migration, etc.) but ...
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