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 »In the media: “Year’s delay for Commission paper on communicating with citizens” (EUobserver, 31/10/2018)
As if there was time to lose… … knowing that that’s what #LEAP2020 was working on with the institutions in the framework of the “EU governance 2020” project tightly linked with the EC Task Force on “Governance reform” back in ...
Read More »Franck Biancheri’s friends pay tribute to Nicole Fontaine, citizen for Europe, former president of the European Parliament
“A Union that is sick by its deficit of democracy” – For Nicole Fontaine, among the causes of the crisis in Europe: technocracy, ultraliberalism, the lack of leadership that led to the mismanagement of several crises (Greek, migration, etc.) but ...
Read More »The euro is only an instrument…
… neutral in itself. lt is therefore useless to reject it out of hand or to praise it to the skies. lt will serve Europe according to how the politicians and peoples of Europe use it. lt could prove a ...
Read More »From a single currency to a single citizenship (Franck Biancheri, 1997)
The move to a single currency is not only the most important economic challenge the European Union has taken on in its forty years of existence, but it is above all the most significant political challenge it has ever faced. ...
Read More »Tomorrow the Euro, the transition to the single European currency. A series of twelve Euro-conferences (Prometheus-Europe,1997)
LEAP2020 and Anticipolis editions publish a Special review: “Euroland at a crossroads“, a compilation of texts written by about fifteen authors. The purpose of it, is to report on the vigor of the debate on this reform in order 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 »National Identities and European Solidarity – by Eveline Caduc
We should not be afraid to give appropriate place to the concepts of identity, nation and national identity to prevent them from running away with the identity providers towards large spaces “illuminated with horror”i. My wallpaper: Europe with the so-called ...
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