On the twentieth anniversary of the launch of LEAP/Europe2020, we are reaching the horizon set in 1999 by Franck Biancheri and his team. Based on the experience and lessons drawn from this project, we believe that the anticipations and proposals produced during these years are more relevant than ever. Political ...
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December GEAB – Europe over troubled waters
With the European elections just around the corner, the last pillar of the ‘twentieth century model’ of European construction has just fallen victim to a French people voicing their anger over the socially unbearable nature of compliance with European rules. France, aware of its inability to carry the old European ...
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 »The end of pyramidal structures: Relativisation of the sovereignty of the State from above – the European Union (excerpt from Marc Luyckx’ book “Co-creating the new civilisation”)
The European Union is a new level of power to which States are invited to surrender part of their sovereignty in order to exert it together at a more global level—that of the European Union. This is a new level of power above the State. But the EU is neither ...
Read More »Everything about “Euroland at a crossroads” and launch-conference
On April 23, 2018, at the premices and with the support of the EIB and of the foundation Ceci n’est pas une crise, the launch-conference of our publication “Euroland at a crossroads” took place. Here is a recap of the various texts and documents related to this event: . the ...
Read More »United Kingdom 2019: What if Brexit proved to be a success story?
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 ...
Read More »“EUROPE : COMMUNITY OR EMPIRE?” a path-breaking historical book by Franck Biancheri written in 1992
Re-reading Franck Biancheri’s anticipations helps to understand the springs of failure and to build the next Europe from the lessons learned and on a much better understood foundation. This text is certainly a rough draft, but it gives a fairly precise idea of Franck Biancheri’s European genius, this great man ...
Read More »NAEC-AIA seminar on the future of Europe – LEAP/FranckBiancheriNetwork at the OECD
We wish to draw your attention to this video of a seminar on the future of Europe which took place on 16/01/2018 at the OECD. We were the only outsiders in this meeting and asked to come in numbers. So we came with a delegation of 7, including Maria Ballesteros ...
Read More »GlobalEurope Panorama 2018: Inauguration of the “World-after” (5 structuring trends)
PUBLIC REVIEW of our monthly bulletin GEAB (January, 2018). Subscribe here ! Reinforced by the 75% success rate of our 2017 anticipations, our team presents in this January issue of the GEAB, 5 structuring trends and 33 “Up & Down 2018” anticipations. Here are some financial related fragments we selected for you. Many more topics are covered ...
Read More »Nation-States, Europe, Regions and …. Macro-Regions: The “Habsburg” are back (Christel Hahn)
On December 21, the Catalans re-elected their parliament, the majority of whose seats returned to the separatist lists (and not the majority of votes). Earlier this week, the Austrian government, on the basis of an idea defended by the FPÖ, relaunched the issue of South Tyrol by offering an Austrian ...
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