Franck Biancheri
Leader of Newropeans
In office
24 June 2007 – 21 June 2011
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byMargit Reiser-Schober
Personal details
Born(1961-03-11)11 March 1961
Nice, France
Died30 October 2012(2012-10-30) (aged 51)
Paris, France
Websitefranck-biancheri.info (archived)

Franck Biancheri (11 March 1961 – 30 October 2012) was the founder of the Newropeans European political party and the leader from June 2006.[1] The party planned to run for campaigns in the 2009 elections to the European Parliament with representatives in all member states 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, France.[2] He lived in Cannes, 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)[3][4][5] In 1997, at Blair House, during an EU-US summit in Washington, he launches TIESWeb,[6] the first transatlantic web portal dedicated to dialog between European and American civil societies.[7][8]

In 2003 he was among the top twenty "heroes" for being a "French champion of European unity"[9] in a poll by Time Europe.

From 2006, he was the scientific coordinator of the Leap2020 think tank.

Biancheri died on 30 October 2012.[10] He had been seriously ill from cancer for four years.

References

  1. ^ "Biography". Franck-biancheri.info. 21 March 1987. Archived from the original on 23 August 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  2. ^ "Newropeans > Executive Committee". Archived from the original on 7 March 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2008.
  3. ^ leconomiste.com. "Partenariat Euro-Méditerranéen : La réussite passe par la société civile". Leconomiste.com. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  4. ^ "IIAS Newsletter 13, Summer 1997, General News 02". Iias.nl. 6 June 1997. Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  5. ^ "Intercambios Entre El Viejo Y El Nuevo Mundo - Archivo - Archivo Digital de Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo desde 1.990". eltiempo.com. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  6. ^ Olivier Joseph pour TIESWeb. "Transatlantic Information Exchange System [TIES]". Tiesweb.org. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  7. ^ Olivier Joseph pour TIESWeb (1 January 1999). "Transatlantic Information Exchange System [TIES]". Tiesweb.org. Archived from the original on 2 March 2009. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  8. ^ "Delegation of the European Union to the United States". Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  9. ^ "Heroes 2003". Time Europe. 2003.
  10. ^ "Le 30 Octobre 2012, Franck Biancheri est décédé. Son oeuvre est plus que jamais vivante". Newropeans Magazine (in French). 30 October 2012. Archived from the original on 2 February 2013.

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