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 ...
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From European Elections 2019 to Europe 2040: making sure Europe’s nascent democracy serves the interests of the next generations
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 ...
Read More »A Case for a Democratic and Modern Governance for the Planet, by Christel Hahn
The last G20 summit in Hamburg saw unprecedented violent protests, unelected bodies like the IMF or the IPCC shape our economies, the UNO and its financing is in a crisis and the EU is being questioned by Brexiters and other popular movements, yet problems of planetary dimension keep piling up. ...
Read More »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 »Money, Finance, Europe, Democracy, Geopolitical Configuration: the GEAB bulletin’s 35 trends
PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE of our monthly bulletin GEAB January, 2017. Subscribe here ! Every year, LEAP/E2020 is offering you a short overview of the up and down[1] trends of the year which is starting. In addition to the intellectual interest of this contribution of LEAP/E2020, which of course reflects many of our researchers’ analyses over the ...
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 »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 »Acceleration of the process of distinction between Euroland-EU, by Franck Biancheri (February 2012)
An excerpt from GEAB N°62 (February 2012) At the same time these two years will see the acceleration of the difference between Euroland and the EU. It is a phenomenon which will in fact characterize the whole of the decade. Euroland which functions to a large extent in the form ...
Read More »LEAP launches new working group – « Euroland Governance 2020 »: completing the Eurozone’s institutional embryo, securing its democratic articulation
For some twenty years, the building and management of Europe took place in the framework of the European Union (EU) which replaced in 1992 the previous framework, called European Community. This framework is now breathless. Questioned by member-states and citizens alike, attacked on every front, it endangers the European project ...
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