Working document by Franck Biancheri for the cabinets of Ministers Barnier and Haigneré 10/09/2004 Working document prepared by Franck Biancheri, Director of Studies and Strategy for Europe 2020 and presented to the cabinets of Ministers Michel Barnier and Claudie Haigneré in October 2004 I. Yes-But Campaign: Motivations and Principles The ...
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Make Your Vote Count
by Adrian Taylor 23/04/2004 Governments and elections Imagine what a scandal would follow if a general election in any EU Member State led to the nomination of a Prime Minister from a party that clearly lost. Worse still, if the policy programme that the Prime Minister designate presented ...
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May 9 – 23, 2002 03/05/2002 The first Trans-European online election First European Student Council elected and democratic 82,000 European students elect their representatives by Internet An event organized by Europe 2020 and Newropeans Thanks to the support of the Hippocrène Foundation, the Robert Schuman Foundation, Andersen, ...
Read More »Seminar EU-Governance 2020 / Enlargement in a post-Euro EU: Estimating the new political factors
Paris (Centre Kléber), February 4, 2002 04/02/2002 Organised with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs And of Mr Pierre Moscovici, French Minister in charge of European Affairs Seminar’s executive summary Concept This seminar takes place as part of the series of the EU / Governance ...
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Brussels (Representation of North Rhine – Westphalia to the EU), November 13, 2001 13/11/2001 Organised by ZEI (Center for European Integration Studies) and Europe 2020 In cooperation with the Representation of North Rhine – Westphalia to the European Union in Brussels Concept The often discussed gap between expectations ( ...
Read More »Immigration, Civilisations, European Integration …, only one question matters: Do we want or not that the immigrants’ children become true Europeans?
par Franck Biancheri 12/10/2001 Since WWII, almost all EU countries, one after the other, have discovered the issue of immigration, while for decades or centuries they were only emigration countries. France is the only European country facing immigration for almost two centuries UK, Germany, Holland, Scandinavia, Italy, Spain, … all ...
Read More »Seminar EU-Governance 2020 / Which political message in Laeken and how to make it heard?
Paris (Kleber Centre), October 5, 2001 06/10/2001 Organised with the collaboration of the French Ministry of European Affairs and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Seminar’s executive summary
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Executive summary Seminar EU-Governance 2020 (Paris, October 5, 2001) 05/10/2001 ANALYSES During this 6th Europe 2020 Anticipation Seminar which took place on October 5th, 2001 at the International Conference Centre of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the theme : « Which message in Laeken and how to ...
Read More »USA Attacks, Euro Switch, Recession,… Everything is fine! Sleep Good people!
by Franck Biancheri 27/09/2001 Whatever the institutions say, we must anticipate the reality: the transition to the euro will take place under the worst conditions against the backdrop of an economic recession! But no… shh… we must not “despair the Euro-citizens”. Growth? It’s okay, don’t worry about it! The attacks ...
Read More »Strengthening the powers or legitimizing the competences of the European institutions
by Franck Biancheri 22/05/2001 Moving from an administrative version of the EU to a democratic vision of the future of Europe The speeches on the future of the EU are full of reference to the strengthening of the powers of this or that institution. For one it will be the ...
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