Related to the GEAB article, “People’s anger: it’s politics stupid! “1, Jordi Lafon* offers us here an analysis of the hopes and possible risks brought by the democratic experiences of citizens’ assemblies that are multiplying, particularly in Europe. As the European parliamentary democracies continue to run out of steam, new ...

Joint declaration / AEGEE-Europe, AAFB, LEAP2040 (To the attention of our political & civil society leaders)   The 2019 European Elections enter into history as the first signal of ownership of the European project by citizens. The stop to falling turnout proves that the European election will no longer be ...

The identification of these 10 areas of reflection results from discussions conducted since a few months by LEAP in partnership with AEGEE-Europe in the framework of the launching of Project Europe 2040. The big difference between the European project seventy years ago, or even thirty years ago, and the Europe2040 ...

Dans le cadre des élections communales qui se déroulent ces jours-ci en Belgique, Cédric du Monceau, candidat à la Mairie d’Ottignies, mais aussi partenaire du lancement de la CitizensRoute dans sa commune en juillet 2017 et de la publication LEAP “L’Euroland dans tous ses états” du début 2018, et Marie-Hélène ...

In a European Union in great practical and moral difficulty, the eurozone is looking more and more like Europe’s ‘hard-core’ – that has resisted the shocks absorbed by our continent in the past 10 years better than the rest. And this is to be expected: the eurozone is composed of ...

Selected pieces of “Euroland at a crossroads“: Excerpt from Pierre Calame’s book “Petit Traité d’Œconomie” published in April 2018 by Éditions Charles Léopold Mayer – ECLM “Until the mid-XVIIIth century, one spoke of eoconomy instead of economy: from oïkos (home) an nomos (law). The oeconomy refered to the wise government ...

Following the launching event of LEAP’s Special Euroland Review, the Trends Magazine published an article paying a due tribute to Philippe Maystadt’s “Euroland” testament to be found in the volume. “Philippe Maystadt left a testament, via an interview he gave a few weeks only before passing away to Robert Polet ...

On April 23, 2018, at the premices and with the support of the EIB and of the foundation Ceci n’est pas une crise, the launch-conference of our publication “Euroland at a crossroads” took place. Here is a recap of the various texts and documents related to this event: . the ...

Yesterday in Brussels, the launch conference of the Special Review “Euroland at a crossroads” (organised by LEAP with the support of the EIB and the Ceci n’est pas une crise Foundation) brought together about sixty representatives of civil society and political groups on the one hand, and of banks and ...

The European Union currently is experiencing an unprecedented existential crisis. Brexit, redefinition of the European project, collapse of the structuring transatlantic axis, parties of extremes in renewal of notoriety: They all undermine the Federalist Union imagined by the founding fathers. If all European Institutions are in the line of Eurosceptic ...

Among the numerous and prestigious contributions of our Special Review “Euroland at a crossroads“, we have the honour of counting one of the last texts by Philippe Maystadt, former Belgian minister, who unfortunately passed away on December 7th last year, during the preparation of the Review. We have wished to ...

LEAP and Anticipolis have just released a Special Review entitled “Euroland at a crossroads” consisting of a compilation of complementary views on the theme of the reform of the eurozone, the purpose of which is to report on the vigor of the debate on this reform in order to encourage ...

On December 21, the Catalans re-elected their parliament, the majority of whose seats returned to the separatist lists (and not the majority of votes). Earlier this week, the Austrian government, on the basis of an idea defended by the FPÖ, relaunched the issue of South Tyrol by offering an Austrian ...

The #CitizensRoute (A Franck Biancheri Network initiative) initiates its first e-Café debate! You are cordially invited to join us for an online public debate on Monday, November 6th at 18.00. The objective is to mobilise the organisational and political network of partners on burning issues, to create a dynamic debate around the #CitizensRoute ...

Tuesday 3 October 2017 – Brussels: Marie-Hélène Caillol et Giorgio Clarotti were invited by Konrad Fuhrmann et Catherine Vieilledent-Monfort (European Commission) on Radio Lingvistika for an interview on the issue: “European citizenship, how?”. “Marie-Hélène Caillol and Giorgio Clarotti are alumni of the European Movement AEGEE (Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de ...

Piketty’s “Pour un traité de démocratisation de l’Europe”, which is available in french since March, has just been released in german as „Für ein anderes Europa“ (for a different Europe). The subtitle of the german book clarifies, that the book presents a „Treaty for the Democratisation of the Eurozone“1, a very specific project, which ...

EU DEMOCRATISATION: A CITIZEN PROCESS Kick-off event “French Elections 2017- European Elections 2019: Two years to turn the EU towards its citizens” Louvain la Neuve (Belgium), July 1-2, 2017 # Subscribe now! Free and compulsory subscription! Register now: fill the form here ! # Read the complete presentation document of the ...

On Januray 8th in Berlin, Marie-Hélène Caillol our President, took part in a small meeting which resulted in the launching of a new initiative: ICAN, where CAN stands for Change Agent Network. “Most Citizens of Europe do not want the EU to carry on with “business as usual” as its ...

Many Europeans have never understood Nigel Farage. His objective was never just Brexit. His real ambition is the collapse of the European Union. Enter (soon to be) President Trump. He celebrated Brexit as “a great thing”. He has also repeatedly said he will “Appoint tough and smart trade negotiators to fight on behalf ...

European Defense: a Challenge for European Democracy – No European army without European Democracy – Lets start with some fundamental thoughts and then go into European politics. An army is a democratic anachronism for two reasons: . can a state based upon democratic values send its sons and nowadays even ...

Countering the British nationalist takeover with a European democratic blow Towards a first real trans-European election – An open Letter to the European Leaders – July 20, 2016 Dear European leaders, “We have all got it right, Brexit will ultimately not result in Great Britain leaving the EU. Nevertheless, Brexit ...

Last year at the height of the Greek crisis, the Eurozone proved to be a solid anchor at the core of the European construction. The Greek crisis indeed revealed how closely Euro-member countries’ destinies are tied together. Since 1996, LEAP and its predecessors have been advocating that the Eurozone provides fertile ground ...

What is the Euroland Agora? VISION Euroland Agora recognizes Eurozone as a fertile ground to initiate the political and democratic integration of Europe. Based on this idea, Euroland Agora aims at contributing to the emergence of a democratic Euroland at the heart of the EU, in an innovating way that ...

Brussels (Aloft Brussels Schuman hotel), January 9th, 2015 Organized by Laboratoire Européen d’Anticipation Politique (LEAP/E2020) in partnership with Association des Amis de Franck Biancheri (AAFB)   Programme: Friday, January 9th, 2014 – 8.00-13.00 In camera” debates moderated by Marie-Hélène Caillol and Harald Greib Work session performed in French and English, ...

” The Euro crisis, and more recently the Ukrainian crisis, made it clear that we are facing a severe political vacuum with regard to the European construction. ECB bankers and civil servants from the European Commission and the Member States handled the crisis. From a technical point of view, their ...

The crisis of the euro currency has helped deploy the institutional embryo of the Eurozone: from the ECB to the Euro Summit via the Eurogroup, the EU and the Member-States have realized since 2009 that they had omitted to endow the Euroland, this new sovereign who appeared in 2002 in ...

Les derniers chiffres économiques allemands ont tordu le cou au mythe d’une économie allemande qui, soutenue par une politique d’austérité et grâce aux réformes structurelles sous le gouvernement Schröder, allait réaliser une croissance pérenne et montrer le chemin à suivre aux économies fragiles de la zone euro, comme notamment l’Italie, ...

  Franck Biancheri, former director of studies and research at LEAP, used to say that “the national parties don’t understand anything about Europe”. His assessment was confirmed in a most impressive way on April 23rd during a TV broadcast on France-Inter radio channel, where Bruno Le Roux, the President of ...

There are certain things which are Euro-politically incorrect, yet true. Thus, in the name of the truth, we must tell those things as they are, even if that might cause raised shields, or an outcry, from all those who consider themselves the guardians of the temple of the European integration ...

The crisis anticipated for the end of March 2006 will provide a serious test for Euroland and will determine whether the Euro is sustainable or not. The significant fall of the Dollar will automatically induce a strong upward pressure on the Euro against this currency, and against others linked to ...