Franck Biancheri

Franck Biancheri ( born March 11, 1961 in Nice, † October 30, 2012 ) was a French political activist. He was co-founder and honorary chairman of the party Newropeans.

Life

Franck Biancheri was a grandson of an Italian immigrant and a graduate of the Paris elite university Institut d' études politiques de Paris. He was the father of a daughter and lived in Cannes.

Activities

Franck Biancheri founded 1985, EGEE, the predecessor of the European organization AEGEE and this has also led in the first three years. He belonged in 1987 to the supporters of the establishment of the Erasmus program, by persuading François Mitterrand them to work for the financing of this European initiative.

In 1998 he founded the European Think Tank Europe 2020 which deals with the future of European democracy and constitution and the European role in a coming global crisis, and was the scientific director. He is also President of the Euro - American organization TIESWeb.

He is Honorary Chairman of the party Newropeans, which campaigns for the democratization of the EU. Newropeans first emerged as a party in the European elections of 2009. They see themselves as the only transnational political movement that occurs at the lack of political leadership of the EU for its democratization. Biancheri himself stood as the leading candidate for his party in the constituency Sud -Est.

While the EU Spanish Presidency in the first half of 2010 was Franck Biancheri under the " Citizens Agenda for Science and Innovation ," presented as one of 14 European citizens, whose inventions and research results have become part of everyday life.

In December 2010, his book is "After the Crisis - On the way to the world of tomorrow " with the title appeared. 2011, it was nominated as one among seven essays for the award of the European Book Prize.