Barely 6 weeks after the European elections, the spectacle of the EU political system becomes pathetic. Once again, a combined election between the EPP and the PES to share the influence and financial resources allocated to the groups dominating the ...
Read More »France and the UK, two old democracies with truly outdated procedures (Franck Biancheri, 2007)
… it seems urgent in France and in the United Kingdom to launch vast reforms of democratic procedures (…) otherwise the citizens of both countries will increasingly turn away from elections (…) or vote for extremist parties going to scrap ...
Read More »The decade from 2020 to 2030: Welcome to the World Afterwards … the babyboomers! (Franck Biancheri – Edito MAP3, July 2011)
“When the baby-boomer generation will give way to millennials, the support of populism should also decline,” says Steven Pinker, American linguist and psychologist in his latest book “Enlightenment now” (see L’Echo.be, 26/10/2018). Not so sure … This statement certainly echoes ...
Read More »[25 years of the Maastricht Treaty] 1992, the Community at a crossroads. When Franck Biancheri denounced the risks of imperialist drifts of Europe
His book, EUROPE: COMMUNUTY OR EMPIRE? Elements of reflection and principles of action for future European citizens (1992, Editions Anticipolis), deals in particular with the risks inherent of the Maastricht Treaty, which entered into force 25 years ago, on 1st November ...
Read More »[Archives Newropeans] NEWROPEANS MANIFESTO (2005)
Newropeans, the First trans-European political movement … because the EU is too important to be left in the hands of national parties and of bureaucrats… Newropeans, a political movement with a self-decided “limited life-span”, which is also destined to prevent ...
Read More »[Archives Newropeans] Flyers 2007 for the first ever trans-European political movement: European citizens, European democracy, European politics…
You will find below the first leaflets of Newropeans for the European campaign of 2009, these had been published in several languages, here English, French, German, Italian and Dutch. Newropeans campaign for the 2009 European elections was, after IDE (Initiative ...
Read More »“Let’s not be ashamed of Europe” Initiative for a European democracy
“Let’s not be ashamed of Europe” said Nathalie Loiseau, French Minister for European Affairs, in Strasbourg on 7 September, for the inauguration of the 86th European Fair. She calls for the defense of the “progressive front” that Emmanuel Macron wants ...
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