Book Vision 2020

A book remarked ever since its first publishing in June 2002 Jean Guyot, First financial director of the European Coal and Steel Community and former collaborator of Jean Monnet, prefaced the book.

President
of the Hippocrène
Foundation, the
first financial
director of CECA
in 1951, Jean
Monnet’s former
collaborator,
associated partner
of the bank “Lazard”,
Jean Guyot is
one of the pioneers
of the European
construction.
He accepted to
draft the preface
of the Vision
Europe 2020 :
” Franck
Biancheri’s protean
activity could
give the edge.
This resolute
European seems
like he escapes
time and space
constraints. There
is no moment in
which his tireless
capacity to take
new initiatives
does not work…”

European
political high
level figures
are reacting at
the distribution
of Vision Europe
2020 in June 2002
: Tony Blair,
Guy Verhofstadt,
Jo Leinen, Roger
Helmer

Many
European citizens
and media are
making comments
on Vision Europe
2020:

. ” Congratulations
for your courageous
initiative for
the future of
Europe. It is
a vision which
deserves attention”,
J. L., Austria

. “We congratulate
M Biancheri
on his courageous
submitting to
this open virtual
platform discussion
his views of,
and considerations
on the future
of the EU…”,
C. S., Belgium

. “Vision
2020 expresses
a certain vision
of Europe’s
future, which
is transparent
through the
14 proposals
and the general
background of
Europe 2020
” EUobserver

CONTENT WHICH THROWS THE TRADITIONAL EUROPEAN VISIONS UP-SIDE DOWN

Introduction
: The
key problem of
Europe in the
decades to come
is thus to reconcile
the aspirations
of democracy,
unity and effective
action: Europe
no longer needs
to be built, but
rather to be governed
effectively and
democratically

14 strategic
and operational
proposals to build
an effective and
democratic European
Union during the
next two decades
: a European Government
at the head of
two new administrative
entities, the
Heads of State
and of Government
at the head of
the only European
political executive,
a powerful European
Parliament integrating
the European,
national and regional
levels, the elimination
of the college
of commissioners,
the re-dynamisation
of the Council
of Europe so as
to help structure
the EU’s
neighbourhood,
a clear yet dynamic
division of competences,
democratic control
of bureaucratic
structures

100 pages of analyses
and developments
: the complete
corpus

1. towards political
Europe : placing
the democratic
necessity at
the core of
the construction

2. the reform
of institutions
: adapting the
institutions
to the challenges
of the 21st
century Europe

3. to succeed
the enlargement
: measuring
the challenges
and endowing
ourselves with
the appropriate
strategies

4. the EU external
relations :
allowing the
EU to take its
responsabilities
at international
level. au niveau
international