The conference “Representation Needs Participation: European Elections” took place from the 13th to 15th of April 2018 in Salerno. It took part as an activity related to the Franck Biancheri Award granted to AEGEE-Salerno and was co-organised with the Civic ...
Read More »Happy birthday Franck!
Franck Biancheri, was born on March 11, 1961. Following his death in October 2012, at the age of 51, the association of the Friends of Franck Biancheri held its very first Agora on March 11, 2013, already five years ago, ...
Read More »[podcast] How do we bring out and promote transeuropean lists? David Carayol (Newropeans) on #CitizensRoute
The “e-Tribunes” consist of monthly online meetings organised by the CitizenRoute’s partners, aimed at providing the opportunity for emerging political movements to present and confront their positions on European “burning issues”. e-Tribune N°3: “Should we wait for institutional reforms to ...
Read More »Little political comments from a Euro-citizen (1): Turkey accession, so many lies from the pro-accession side – by Franck Biancheri (2004)
From time to time, rather than making a longer editorial on one or the other EU current issues, I will try to elaborate those ‘little comments’ reflecting discussions, debates I have with average Europeans like me in various parts of ...
Read More »Without real trans-European parties, the European election is a “tourist class” election. By Franck Biancheri (2004)
On 7 February 2018, the European Parliament, while the proposal was on the table, did not vote for the establishment of transnational lists and rejected any reflection on the creation of a single European constituency for the 2019 European elections ...
Read More »#CitizensRoute E-Tribune: Should we wait for institutional reforms to bring out transeuropean lists for the European election 2019? on 06/02/2018
The CitizensRoute invites you to its 3rd e-Tribune: Should we wait for institutional reforms to bring out transeuropean lists for the European election 2019 ? Tuesday Feb, 6th 2018, 18.00-19.00 (online) Language : English Location : ONLINE (URL will be sent to ...
Read More »The Empire creeps in: the democratic imposture – Excerpt from “Europe: Community or Empire?“, a book by Franck Biancheri, 1992
What is this caricature of democracy in which one is supposed to have only one rational, moral, intelligent, responsible choice, the other choice being the one made by idiots and bad guys? The fundamental criticism expressed by Franck Biancheri in ...
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 »Vision Europe 2020: Reinventing Europe 2005-2020 – The 14 strategic proposals (Franck Biancheri, 2002)
The vision of one man named Franck Biancheri, for the democratic future of Europe until 2020. We are far behind… In 2005, Franck Biancheri founded the first trans-European political party, the Newropeans, after a first experience in 1989 with IDE ...
Read More »Stop Nationalisms – Promote Transnationalism (José María Compagni)
The debate on nationalisms and the right to decide rages across Europe once again. Catalonian independentists have managed to place their separatist ambitions at the heart of the political debate. The historic pendulum swings from globalism to independentism and that ...
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