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 ...
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Feed SubscriptionDemain OLAF ne sera toujours pas un vrai Viking (Franck Biancheri, 2005)
(french) – En fait, ce patron d’OLAF ne doit surtout rien avoir à faire avec les Vikings et leur légendaire courage. C’est même tout l’enjeu de la recherche de ce nouveau patron pour l’Office Européen de Lutte Anti-Fraude (OLAF), chargé ...
Read More »Franck Biancheri: EU’s man in Washington should be a politician not a bureaucrat (2004)
Not only will a European politician as EU ambassador to Washington show US officials, media and experts that the EU is not only a bureaucratic machine; but the individual will also be able to reach larger segments of the US ...
Read More »The “European public space” is a fiction invented by academics and technocrats (Franck Biancheri, 2005)
A few months before the European elections it is time to rest, as Franck Biancheri did in 2005, some questions about communication policies at the european and national level at the cost of tens of millions of Euros and which ...
Read More »Communication strategies’ cannot solve anymore the communication deficit’ of the EU institutions (by Franck Biancheri, 2005)
First, I cannot prevent myself to look at it as the 4th or 5th ‘new communication strategy’ of the Commission towards citizens that I know of since I started my European activities 20 years ago. Almost each new Commission decides ...
Read More »Three lies about the EU budget which our politicians keep on using (Franck Biancheri, 2005)
“Neo-liberal policies killed the process by leaving big corporations free to cash in the profits without giving back taxes, nor jobs in the net contributors countries. No surprise that therefore citizens in the same countries start to be reluctant to ...
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