Franck Biancheri

For the former foreign minister of Monaco, see Franck Biancheri (minister).
Franck Biancheri
Leader of Newropeans
In office
24 June 2007  21 June 2011
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Margit Reiser-Schober
Personal details
Born 11 March 1961
Nice, France
Died 30 October 2012 (aged 51)
Paris, France
Website Official website

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 European Parliament election, 2009 in all EU member states simultaneously.

Biancheri had previously founded the European Students' Forum (AEGEE) in 1985 and the thinktank 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 Promotheus-Europe group, he contributed to enhance relationship between European Union and several parts of the world (Eastern Europe, Arabic world, South America, Asia and North America)[3][4][5] In 1997, at Blair House, during Euro-US summit in Washington, he launches TIESWeb,[6] the first transatlantic web portail 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 Leap2020 think tank.

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

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