Franck Biancheri
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Franck Biancheri
|image = Portrait FB 12-2011.JPG
|office = Leader of Newropeans
|term_start = 24 June 2007
|term_end = 21 June 2011
|predecessor = Position established
|successor = Margit Reiser-Schober
|birth_date = {{birth date|1961|3|11|df=y}}
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2012|10|30|1961|3|11}}
|death_place = Paris, France
|website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20080719143613/http://www.franck-biancheri.info/ franck-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.{{cite web |url=http://www.franck-biancheri.info/en/biography.htm |title=Biography |publisher=Franck-biancheri.info |date=21 March 1987 |accessdate=31 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823081414/http://www.franck-biancheri.info/en/biography.htm |archivedate=23 August 2012}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.newropeans.eu/article.php3?id_article=915&lang=en |title=Newropeans > Executive Committee |accessdate=28 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307004049/http://www.newropeans.eu/article.php3?id_article=915&lang=en |archivedate=2009-03-07 }} 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){{cite web|author=leconomiste.com |url=http://www.leconomiste.com/article/partenariat-euro-mediterraneen-la-reussite-passe-par-la-societe-civile |title=Partenariat Euro-Méditerranéen : La réussite passe par la société civile |publisher=Leconomiste.com |date= |accessdate=31 October 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/13/General/13baxd02.html |title=IIAS Newsletter 13, Summer 1997, General News 02 |publisher=Iias.nl |date=6 June 1997 |accessdate=31 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303122941/http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/13/General/13baxd02.html |archive-date=3 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-454758 |title=Intercambios Entre El Viejo Y El Nuevo Mundo - Archivo - Archivo Digital de Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo desde 1.990 |publisher=eltiempo.com |date= |accessdate=31 October 2012}}
In 1997, at Blair House, during an EU-US summit in Washington, he launches TIESWeb,{{cite web|author=Olivier Joseph pour TIESWeb |url=http://www.tiesweb.org |title=Transatlantic Information Exchange System [TIES] |publisher=Tiesweb.org |date= |accessdate=2012-10-31}} the first transatlantic web portal dedicated to dialog between European and American civil societies.{{cite web |author=Olivier Joseph pour TIESWeb |url=http://www.tiesweb.org/about_ties/history.htm |title=Transatlantic Information Exchange System [TIES] |publisher=Tiesweb.org |date=1 January 1999 |accessdate=31 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302164902/http://www.tiesweb.org/about_ties/history.htm |archive-date=2 March 2009 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.eurunion.org/partner/summit/Summit9805/nta9805.htm |title=Delegation of the European Union to the United States |accessdate=26 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103110559/http://www.eurunion.org/partner/summit/Summit9805/nta9805.htm |archivedate=3 January 2013}}
In 2003 he was among the top twenty "heroes" for being a "French champion of European unity"[https://web.archive.org/web/20030421031925/http://www.time.com/time/europe/hero/poll.html "Heroes 2003"]. Time Europe. 2003. in a poll by Time Europe.
From 2006, he was the scientific coordinator of the Leap2020 think tank.
Biancheri died on 30 October 2012.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newropeans-magazine.org/content/view/13348/1/lang,english/ |title=Le 30 Octobre 2012, Franck Biancheri est décédé. Son oeuvre est plus que jamais vivante |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202042742/http://www.newropeans-magazine.org/content/view/13348/1/lang,english/ |archive-date=2 February 2013 |magazine=Newropeans Magazine |date=30 October 2012 |language=fr}} He had been seriously ill from cancer for four years.
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External links
- {{Official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20080719143613/http://www.franck-biancheri.info/}} (archived)
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Category:Politicians from Nice
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