Franck Biancheri (11 March 1961 – 30 October 2012) was the founder of the
Newropeans European political party
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and the leader from June 2006. The party planned to run for campaigns in the
2009 elections to the European Parliament
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with representatives in all
member states
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simultaneously.
Biancheri had previously founded the largest student association in Europe,
European Students' Forum (AEGEE) in 1985 and the think tank
LEAP/Europe2020 in 1998.
Biography
Biancheri was born in
Nice
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.
He lived in
Cannes
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, and had one daughter.
From 1991, through several networks including the Promotheus-Europe group, he contributed to enhance relationship between the European Union and several parts of the world (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, the Arabic world, South America, Asia, and North America)
In 1997, at Blair House, during an EU-US summit in Washington, he launches TIESWeb, the first transatlantic web portal dedicated to dialog between European and American civil societies.
In 2003 he was among the top twenty "heroes" for being a "French champion of European unity"
"Heroes 2003"
'' Time Europe''. 2003. in a poll by '' Time Europe''.
From 2006, he was the scientific coordinator of the Leap2020
LEAP (Laboratoire Européen d'Anticipation Politique, English: European Laboratory of Political Anticipation) is a think tank established to analyse and anticipate global economic developments from a European perspective and to publish a paid-subsc ...
think tank.
Biancheri died on 30 October 2012.
References
External links
* (archived)
1961 births
Politicians from Nice
2012 deaths
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