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 ...
Read More »European Defense: a Challenge for European Democracy (Christel Hahn, 2016)
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 ...
Read More »Open Letter to the European Leaders: Countering the British nationalist takeover with a European democratic blow
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 ...
Read More »Open call: Euroland Agora in Athens (October 7-10, 2016)
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 ...
Read More »Agora of Euroland Citizens, by LEAP2020
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 ...
Read More »EUROLAND GOVERNANCE 2020 / 1st session: Toward a political and democratic union of the Euroland
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, ...
Read More »Information/invitation – First Euroland Governance 2020 seminar: Toward a political and democratic union of the Euroland
” 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 ...
Read More »A Super-Committee of the Euroland at the heart of the European Parliament? On the way to the first Supra-National Parliament in the World, by Marie-Hélène Caillol
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 ...
Read More »Sauver la monnaie commune – la tâche éminemment prioritaire des parlementaires européens, par Harald Greib
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, ...
Read More »Toward the “Estates General” of the Euroland, by Harald Greib
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 ...
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