PUBLIC Announcement of our monthly bulletin GEAB (March 2018). Register here ! So far, the media and political analysts have been unanimous: Brexit represents an uncertain and dangerous future only for the UK. Our readers know that we have always been more circumspect about this. Now that the first phase of negotiations has been ...
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SAVE THE DATE ! The Franck Biancheri Network and iCAN invite you in Louvain-la-Neuve on July 1-2!
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 ...
Read More »Marie-Hélène Caillol: “They destroyed the EU” (interview by la Vanguardia, 30/12/2016)
LEAP is proud to share with you the interview of Marie-Hélène Caillol (President of LEAP and AAFB), conducted by Rafael Poch, correspondent in Paris for the Spanish newspaper LA VANGUARDIA. This article is also available in Spanish here! Is this multicrisis EU fixable, or does it have to be demolished in order to be ...
Read More »Inventing 21century democracy, by Christel Hahn IRPA’s President
Christel Hahn is a Physicist specialized in biophysics and IT developer. She’s also the President of our International Council of Political Anticipation: IRPA The current political parties belong to the nation-state and the citizens are creating new ways to organize themselves The current democratic system is in a crisis with growing ...
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 »Integrating double degree curricula into TEMPUS and ERASMUS-MUNDUS programs for the mutual benefit of partner institutions, by Jean-Paul Guichard*
Careful thought on the finality of European programmes intended for the university level is a must. These programmes present a major flaw, essentially being one-way, but one which can be surmounted, as the University of Nice has proven with its considerable experience in teaching double degree courses of study. 1) ...
Read More »Laicity (secularism): A Highly efficient instrument of social peace
by Masha Loyak 17/03/2006 With the French law against conspicuous religious signs, the outer world gets a glimpse of a key-instrument of France’s social-engineering invented along centuries of internal conflicts : laicity. At a time of growing internal and international social conflicts, it may be good news that this French ...
Read More »France: “the suburban effect”
by Thierry Warin 18/11/2005 There are two ways in French to talk about suburbs : “la banlieue” and “en banlieue.” Say you live in “la banlieue,” and everybody knows it is in a public housing project. Say you live “en banlieue,” and it is likely to be outside Paris, for ...
Read More »Citizen – European project relations: Towards a « D for Democratisation » strategy
Post-Referendum Anticipation Paper N°2, by Franck Biancheri 14/06/2005 The current EU political crisis provoked by the French and Dutch « Noes » and by the resulting failure of the process of ratification of the European Constitution, in fact originates in the complete failure of more than 10 years ...
Read More »The European Union confronted with the challenge of its own democratization – The greatest political challenge for the EU during the next two decades
by Franck Biancheri 23/11/2004 An immense political “depression” is gaining force throughout the European electorate An immense democratic/political “depression” is in the midst of being created in the very heart of European continental politics. The 200 million voters that chose not to participate in June 2004 are the proof. ...
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