May 8 and 9, commemorate history, celebrate the future – “The advent of France-Germany is the foundation of Europe’s political maturity” wrote Franck Biancheri in 2003. An article that tells us not only about the reconciliation of the two peoples, ...
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Feed SubscriptionPension crisis – Paris is the French intellectual desert… by Franck Biancheri (2010) – article in French
To understand the pension crisis in France today, from the demonstrations of the yellow vests to those of the trade unions in recent months, this article by Franck Biancheri, which gives a completely new light by brushing the socio-political impasse ...
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Read More »France and the UK, two old democracies with truly outdated procedures (Franck Biancheri, 2007)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 »Government Formation in Germany: A State of Suspense. (by Christel Hahn)
Germany, one of the pillars of Europe, has no new government since the federal elections in September. But it has a caretaker government (the old one) and a working new parliament. The parliament got itself a structure to work and ...
Read More »From “Biancheri Athens 1998” to “Macron Athens 2017”: Upgrading democracy takes 20 years
Emmanuel Macron’s recent speech in Athens puts on the table the great political challenges facing the EU. Rebuilding citizens’ trust, democratising the EU, opening the European election to trans-European lists, politically refounding the Eurozone… These ideas are truly echoeing another ...
Read More »Economics: Good news will be pouring! The French presidential election at the heart of a European takeover of the media narrative (GEAB 115, May 2017)
PUBLIC REVIEW of our monthly bulletin GEAB (May, 2017). Subscribe here ! The voice of France in the world seemed to have disappeared (at least since 2007), which is a far cry from the brilliance of French diplomacy in 2003 when the country opposed ...
Read More »To all the people disappointed by the first round of the french presidential elections…
To all the people disappointed by the first round of the french presidential elections, to all the people appalled by the second round results, when will you understand that we have nothing to gain from the national level? Democracy and ...
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