Franck Biancheri
1961-2012

Franck Biancheri

Political thinker acting for Europe in the service of its citizens.
Without him yesterday, no Erasmus today.

« Antidemocratic and xenophobic forces of Europe have always been attracted by the European unity dream, the mystic of the imperial Rome»
(FB - 1998)
" Being a citizen is a voluntary act "
(FB - 2009)
"Thinking about the future only makes sense if it is aimed at improving one’s thinking about the present and about the trends at work"
(FB - 1998)
"The European project is not a dream, but a hope. It is rooted in rationality, which is not the case with dreams. We Europeans have seen our dreams end in nightmares too often not to be suspicious."
(FB - 2005)
"The strength of a network is judged at the information level of the weakest link, or more precisely the link furthest from the centre of the network."
(FB - 2004)
"Europe's destiny is escaping the two "Greats" and it will come knocking on the door of the Europeans."
(FB - 1989)
"The history of Europe is a bit like a multifaceted diamond. Everyone sees the same diamond... but no one sees exactly the same facets."
(FB - E-storia project, 2004)
"Let us dare the future as the founding fathers of Europe did"
(FB - "From EU to Euroland", 2001)
"The European citizenship can not be decreed. The European citizen can only be born..."
(FB - 1992)
"Every state is a minority in the EU. In any case, let’s not forget that if all our states went into building the EU it is because they all felt too small to face alone both their future and the rest of the world."
(FB - 2003)
"From a single (EU) Currency to a single (EU) Citizenship. The euro is only an instrument."
(FB - 1997)
"An empire is always providing platforms where conflicts and wars prolife­rate... an empire needs enemies, whilst a Community requires partners."
(FB - 1992)
"Europe’s history has taught us that dreams and nightmares are the two faces of the same coin"
(FB - “Europe is Peace” 2006)
"Everybody wants to have a successful enlargement whereas it is a successful enlarged EU which is important."
(FB - 2002)
"It is clear that the existing national political parties can not serve two masters: national and European."
(FB - IDE, 1989)
"It takes teamwork to make Europe move forward."
(FB - 2005)
"There is nothing like one European. The European is a team of Europeans... the only way we can imagine a European, it is a team of people from different countries, not a single man or woman."
(FB - Enschede (NL) 2012)
"On the horizon with a heaven of freedom and a land of responsibility, this is perhaps the soul of Europe."
(FB - 1992)
"The future challenge for the European project is not about Europe anymore, it is about the Europeans."
(FB - 2005)
"The more Brussels speaks English, the less Brussels understands the Europeans"
(FB - 2004)
"Occupy the Future of Europe!"
("What do YOU want as a future for AEGEE?" Franck Biancheri at the 2012 Agora in Enschede)
"To combine new technologies and democratic principles to succeed in the entry of European integration in the 21st century or e-democracy at the service of Euro-democracy"
(FB - EUSV, 2001)
"In the years 00 of the 21st century, democratization can only take place in the perspective of the democratic election of a European executive that remains to be invented."
(FB - EUSV, 2001)
"We must build the European Community, otherwise Europe will soon be culturally Americanised, politically Finlandised and technologically Japanised"
EGEE I, 1984

Marianne Ranke Cormier

[Archives Newropeans] Flyers 2007 for the first ever trans-European political movement: European citizens, European democracy, European politics…[Archives Newropeans] Les tracts 2007 pour le tout premier mouvement politique transeuropéen: citoyens européens, démocratie européenne, politique européenne…

Newropeans /

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 for a European Democracy) in 1989, the very first experiment for a transeuropean political party/movement…* […]

[Archives Newropeans] Flyers 2007 for the first ever trans-European political movement: European citizens, European democracy, European politics…[Archives Newropeans] Les tracts 2007 pour le tout premier mouvement politique transeuropéen: citoyens européens, démocratie européenne, politique européenne… Read More »

FB Award 2019 open call for AEGEE antennae: “Being Franck Biancheri in 2019… looking at 2040. What 20-year-ahead project would Franck Biancheri lay down today?”Prix FB 2019, appel à candidatures pour les antennes AEGEE: “Dans la peau de Franck Biancheri en 2019… imaginant l’horizon 2040. Quelle vision à 20 ans Franck Biancheri aurait-il aujourd’hui?” (anglais)

Franck Biancheri Year /

Connecting AEGEE-Europe to its history! Invent a programme inspired by AEGEE-Europe’s founder DEADLINE NOVEMBER 18th, 2018 This year’s topic: Being Franck Biancheri in 2019… looking at 2040 What 20-year-ahead project would Franck Biancheri lay down today? [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n May 2019, after 10 years of crisis, Brexit implementation and a risky European election, a new EU will

FB Award 2019 open call for AEGEE antennae: “Being Franck Biancheri in 2019… looking at 2040. What 20-year-ahead project would Franck Biancheri lay down today?”Prix FB 2019, appel à candidatures pour les antennes AEGEE: “Dans la peau de Franck Biancheri en 2019… imaginant l’horizon 2040. Quelle vision à 20 ans Franck Biancheri aurait-il aujourd’hui?” (anglais) Read More »

[Archives Newropeans] A Newropeans’ Unique European Electoral law proposal (UEEL), 2010[Archives Newropeans] Proposition Newropeans de Loi Électorale Européenne Unique (LEEU), 2010

Newropeans /

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 [electoral] procedure in all the Member States”. To date, such a procedure has been purely

[Archives Newropeans] A Newropeans’ Unique European Electoral law proposal (UEEL), 2010[Archives Newropeans] Proposition Newropeans de Loi Électorale Européenne Unique (LEEU), 2010 Read More »

The “European public space” is a fiction invented by academics and technocrats (Franck Biancheri, 2005)L’ « espace public européen » est une fiction inventée par des universitaires et des technocrates (Franck Biancheri, 2005)

Archives Franck Biancheri /

A few months before the European elections it is time to rest, as Franck Biancheri did in 2005, some questions about communication policies at the european and national level at the cost of tens of millions of Euros and which have great difficulty  to restore the reputation of the European institutions … because these famous

The “European public space” is a fiction invented by academics and technocrats (Franck Biancheri, 2005)L’ « espace public européen » est une fiction inventée par des universitaires et des technocrates (Franck Biancheri, 2005) Read More »

Communication strategies’ cannot solve anymore the ‘communication deficit’ of the EU institutions (by Franck Biancheri, 2005)Communication strategies’ cannot solve anymore the ‘communication deficit’ of the EU institutions (by Franck Biancheri, 2005)

Archives Franck Biancheri /

First, I cannot prevent myself to look at it as the 4th or 5th ‘new communication strategy’ of the Commission towards citizens that I know of since I started my European activities 20 years ago. Almost each new Commission decides that it must do something new … because the previous one has failed! Most of

Communication strategies’ cannot solve anymore the ‘communication deficit’ of the EU institutions (by Franck Biancheri, 2005)Communication strategies’ cannot solve anymore the ‘communication deficit’ of the EU institutions (by Franck Biancheri, 2005) Read More »

Reto2030 “El futuro de la ciencia europea, en sus manos” (the future of European sciences in their hands) El Pais, 28/04/2010

Archives Franck Biancheri /

In April 2010 the Spanish Presidency of the EU launched the project “Citizen Agenda for Science and Innovation”, “Reto2030” (Challenges2030), inviting 14 European experts, mathematicians, physicists, biologists, astronomers, architects, neuroscientists, doctors and others to present their challenge for the future of Europe in 2030. Franck Biancheri was selected alongside personalities like Norman Foster, Ferran Adrià,

Reto2030 “El futuro de la ciencia europea, en sus manos” (the future of European sciences in their hands) El Pais, 28/04/2010 Read More »

“Let’s not be ashamed of Europe” – Nathalie Loiseau and IDE

Archives Franck Biancheri, IDE /

“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 to launch against the “nationalist” forces in view of the European elections next May.  

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A Europe stronger than AmericaUne Europe plus forte que l’Amérique

Archives Franck Biancheri /

Franck Biancheri, 03/01/2005 With its enlargement to ten poorer countries, the European Union is investing in the future as the gap widens in the United States between poor and rich states … I have always had some reservations about the profession of economists where the few brilliant minds are engulfed by a tide of mediocre

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European parties: the Chinese shadow puppets of European democracy Partis européens: les ombres chinoises de la démocratie européenne

Archives Franck Biancheri /

Franck Biancheri, 08/02/2004  [divider] The EPP (European People’s Party) crisis, which the Fidesz (Hungarian conservative right-wing party of Viktor Orban), of which it is a member, threatens to leave (EUobserver: Orban to EPP: turn ‘Christian democratic’ or face challenge) -and therefore jeopardizes the possibility for the EPP to win a strong majority over to a new

European parties: the Chinese shadow puppets of European democracy Partis européens: les ombres chinoises de la démocratie européenne Read More »

Franck Biancheri Award 2018 Aegee-Salerno: “Representation Needs Participation: European Elections” – Results booklet

Activities, AEGEE, Franck Biancheri Year /

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 Education Working Group. The topic was dedicated to the idea of transnational lists and the

Franck Biancheri Award 2018 Aegee-Salerno: “Representation Needs Participation: European Elections” – Results booklet Read More »

« Antidemocratic and xenophobic forces of Europe have always been attracted by the European unity dream, the mystic of the imperial Rome»
(FB - 1998)
" Being a citizen is a voluntary act "
(FB - 2009)
"Thinking about the future only makes sense if it is aimed at improving one’s thinking about the present and about the trends at work"
(FB - 1998)
"The European project is not a dream, but a hope. It is rooted in rationality, which is not the case with dreams. We Europeans have seen our dreams end in nightmares too often not to be suspicious."
(FB - 2005)
"The strength of a network is judged at the information level of the weakest link, or more precisely the link furthest from the centre of the network."
(FB - 2004)
"Europe's destiny is escaping the two "Greats" and it will come knocking on the door of the Europeans."
(FB - 1989)
"The history of Europe is a bit like a multifaceted diamond. Everyone sees the same diamond... but no one sees exactly the same facets."
(FB - E-storia project, 2004)
"Let us dare the future as the founding fathers of Europe did"
(FB - "From EU to Euroland", 2001)
"The European citizenship can not be decreed. The European citizen can only be born..."
(FB - 1992)
"Every state is a minority in the EU. In any case, let’s not forget that if all our states went into building the EU it is because they all felt too small to face alone both their future and the rest of the world."
(FB - 2003)
"From a single (EU) Currency to a single (EU) Citizenship. The euro is only an instrument."
(FB - 1997)
"An empire is always providing platforms where conflicts and wars prolife­rate... an empire needs enemies, whilst a Community requires partners."
(FB - 1992)
"Europe’s history has taught us that dreams and nightmares are the two faces of the same coin"
(FB - “Europe is Peace” 2006)
"Everybody wants to have a successful enlargement whereas it is a successful enlarged EU which is important."
(FB - 2002)
"It is clear that the existing national political parties can not serve two masters: national and European."
(FB - IDE, 1989)
"It takes teamwork to make Europe move forward."
(FB - 2005)
"There is nothing like one European. The European is a team of Europeans... the only way we can imagine a European, it is a team of people from different countries, not a single man or woman."
(FB - Enschede (NL) 2012)
"On the horizon with a heaven of freedom and a land of responsibility, this is perhaps the soul of Europe."
(FB - 1992)
"The future challenge for the European project is not about Europe anymore, it is about the Europeans."
(FB - 2005)
"The more Brussels speaks English, the less Brussels understands the Europeans"
(FB - 2004)
"Occupy the Future of Europe!"
("What do YOU want as a future for AEGEE?" Franck Biancheri at the 2012 Agora in Enschede)
"To combine new technologies and democratic principles to succeed in the entry of European integration in the 21st century or e-democracy at the service of Euro-democracy"
(FB - EUSV, 2001)
"In the years 00 of the 21st century, democratization can only take place in the perspective of the democratic election of a European executive that remains to be invented."
(FB - EUSV, 2001)
"We must build the European Community, otherwise Europe will soon be culturally Americanised, politically Finlandised and technologically Japanised"
EGEE I, 1984
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