(To the attention of our political & civil society leaders) The 2019 European Elections enter into history as the first signal of ownership of the European project by citizens. The stop to falling turnout proves that the European election ...
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Feed SubscriptionCan the European Union succeed without the emergence of a European ‘demos’? (Franck Biancheri, 2004)
(french) Le sentiment d’exclusion du jeu démocratique communautaire, renforcé par la «balkanisation» du débat politique européen, fragmenté en 25 débats nationaux, conduit les citoyens européens à développer l’idée qu’il va leur falloir choisir entre Europe et Démocratie Une immense dépression ...
Read More »Eurocitizens versus National Parties· The Match is commenced! (Franck Biancheri, 1989)
Franck BIANCHERI’ speech at the IDE-II congress in Evry (France) on Saturday, April the 8th. 1989, for the official launch of the European elections campaign in which IDE participated as the first ever trans-European political party in 3 countries of ...
Read More »Like IDE in 1989, Newropeans in 2009, Volt is now facing French “non-democracy” (AAFB in brief)
Volt, a transnational political party that is running in different European countries for the elections next May, recently published a call entitled “Abaissons les barrières à la démocratie pour permettre la représentation de tous les citoyens” (Let’s lower the barriers ...
Read More »Anne Hidalgo declares “I am in favour of voting from the age of 16 and we are going to experiment with it in Paris” (AAFB in brief)
Voting right from the age of 16 to vote for European elections, a proposal that was on Newropeans’ agenda for European elections in 2009! On the occasion of the European elections, young people aged 16 to 18 will be ...
Read More »Yes, Nathalie Loiseau was indeed one of the pioneers in the history of our (trans)European democracy!
The French mass media has recently found out that Nathalie Loiseau, head of the “Renaissance” political list of LaREM Party (La République en Marche) running for the European elections of May 2019, had already been a candidate before. Indeed, in ...
Read More »Little political comments from a Euro-citizen (3) – Franck Biancheri (2004)
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 »[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] A Newropeans’ Unique European Electoral law proposal (UEEL), 2010
Since the ECSC Treaties (later taken up under various treaties and in particular the Act of 20 September 1976 on Direct Elections to the European Parliament), the European Parliament had been given the task of drawing up draft “A uniform ...
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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