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Citizens' perspectives on the future of Transatlantic
Relations
- Discover here the opinions of speakers and partners
of the Miami Congress -
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Franck
BIANCHERI |
President of Tiesweb, Director for
Studies and Research of Europe 2020 |
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The Americans of today and of tomorrow
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Visions of a Newropean
By Franck Biancheri President of
Tiesweb
Director for Studies and Research of Europe 2020
Preface by John Van Oudenaren
Chief, European Division Library of Congress,
Washington DC
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Preamble -
The following text is extracted from a series
of articles on the United-States recently written
by Franck Biancheri, entitled :
The
Americans of today and of tomorrow -
Visions of a Newropean.
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This
particular article was finished only a few days before
the September 11th attacks. The author chose to keep
it as it had been written knowing sthat it can provide
elements of clarification on the current reactions and
their consequences.
This series, which will be online namely on the TIESWEB
(www.tiesweb.org) and Europe 2020 (www.europe2020.org)
websites , derives from the very concrete experience
gathered by Franck Biancheri in over a decade on the
United-States and the EU/US relations. Not pretending
to be either a scientific study or a report, this series
of texts reflects the visions of a 40-year-old European
in an attempt to cast a European eye on the Americans,
the United-States and their future. It is the expression
of the learnings drawn from an unusual succession of
discoveries/cooperations with the Americans :
-- - invitation in January/February 1991 (during the
Gulf War) by the American State Department to a 1-month-stay
in the US in the frame of the "Young European Political
Leaders" programme
- launch of the Prometheus-Europe network towards North
America in 1996
- launch in 1997 in Wahington at the Blair House on
the occasion of the EU/US Summit, of the Transatlantic
webportal TIESWEB addressed to the civil societies of
both sides
- development of TIESWEB since that time (F. Biancheri
is the President) along meetings/symposia/conferences
held everywhere in the US
- contribution to the launch of the first North American
student network (North American Student Forum in Vera-Cruz
in 1999)
- launch of the Transatlantic 2020 project in cooperation
with the EU Center of theUniversity of Atlanta in April
2000, in presence of Jacques Delors
- survey on the United-States from the " interior "
during the Summer 2001
- co-animation of the " September 11th - Transatlantic
Response " Internet discussion list, in partnership
with various American NGOs.
In a decade, Franck Biancheri visited 34 American States
and met with the highest levels of the " Wahingtonian
" circles, with academic and NGO leaders from all over
the country, and with simple citizens on their living,
working or leisuring places.
This series of articles constitutes a truly European
view, open and friendly, but far from any fascination,
on the people and country that have been at the centre
of History since the beginning of the 20th century.
This view is not that of a passive spectator, but of
someone curious to identify what tomorrow is made of,
as much for the sake of the Americans themselves, as
for the sake of this Europe with a future so uncertain.
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