In March 2004 Putin was re-elected President of Russia for a second 4-years term. In September 2004 after the Beslan tragedy (1 st-3rd of September, school hostage massacre in Beslan, Russia, that ended with the death of at least 334 people, including 186 children) in the name of the fight against terrorism, Putin announced […]
My main serious worry is that if we cannot rapidly democratise the EU political process and leave enlargement crush the less rich segment of our societies, then the dark side of Europe will emerge as the dominant trans-European political force, a kind of national-europeism, which will gather xenophobic and racist movements, antidemocratic ideologies,bureaucratic forces and
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In this sense, this Pact is a predictable Pact of Instability. A European Prosperity Pact should match EU’s political and economic requirements, to preserve the good coherence and coordination of the different economic, financial, monetary and social components of the European community. In a moving and dynamic world, this pact should by no means impose
First 14, these proposals became 15 for the purpose of a marathon of conferences for European democracy between 2002 and 2003. These conferences allowed Franck Biancheri to meet and have discussions with more than 10,000 EU citizens in over 100 European cities on the topic “Where is Europe Going? Bring democracy to new frontiers in terms of size and diversity“. These later became the 16 proposals and the matrix of the Newropeans programme for the elections of 2009 and were translated into 20 European languages
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Discover the history of a trans-european citizen non profit organisation This is a small page in the history of the European democracy and of the life of Franck Biancheri. We have regularly mentioned the Prometheus-Europe Association on this website as well as during our meetings. This structure was founded in 1987 by Franck Biancheri
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Since WWII, almost all EU countries, one after the other, have discovered the issue of immigration, while for decades or centuries they were only emigration countries.
or more precisely the link furthest from the centre of the network… ou plus exactement du maillon le plus éloigné du centre du réseau. … This organization has the advantage of being inexpensive and extremely reactive, adapted to a society in constant motion. This model is already common among the younger generations in Europe,
A scenario elaborated by Franck Biancheri, for Europe 2020, in November 1998. Extremism in Europe is the heir of a very old couple : on the one hand the culturally nurtured fear of ‘The Other’, ‘L’autre’, and on the other hand, the deadlock of political democratic processes. The Europeans praise themselves for being the ones shaping up a common political identity based upon the dual concepts of unity and diversity. But these two concepts have historically formed the core engine of both Europe’s most astounding successes and failures.
2500 years ago, in this same place, our hosts of today, the Greeks, invented democracy, a system which was going to become one of the pillars of European culture. Today, in this same place, with this conference ” Reinventing Europe “and the launching of the project Europe 2020 on internet, we are going to try to combine this democratic tradition with the process of European unification using this new continental Agora which the internet might become.
The European Community is a judicial-political concept. Its origin day is known perfectly well, the day of the signing of the Treaty of Rome on March 25, 1957. Its geographical boundaries are also known by the metre, since its territory covers that of its member states.
Community or Europe? Europe is not the Community (“Europe: Community or Empire?” 1992) Read More »
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