Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Former Under Secretary General United Nations: This day I will keep surely long be remembered as a document that with the involvement of a few people great things can be put into operation. I cordially congratulate you that you had this great idea promoted so that therefore a sustainable institution has…
Climate Reality: An Open Speech to the World by Marc R. Pacheco (Senator of Massachusetts, Democrates) Fresach, 12th May 2016 First, I’d like to start out by thanking Denk.Raum.Fresach for inviting me to speak to you all today. DRF promotes cross-border dialogue on issues of social, political and cultural coexistence in Europe and beyond. Their…
Free market capitalism is a core problem of the climate change, believes civil rights and community organizer Stephen Bradberry, Executive Director of the Alliance Institute http://theallianceinstitute.org in New Orleans. Capital-dictations exacerbate negative impacts of disasters or simple are the reason for it. Bradberry will illustrate his opinion in the context of “European tolerance talks 2016”…
With the first European tolerance talks 2015 the Think.Tank.Fresach has demonstrated that it is possible with genuine claim, true passion and the necessary will to put a big project in the world – and this “out in the country”. No less than to create a ‘European center of tolerance” has been our goal from the beginning.…
Vienna, Austria (16/05.11.2015) – “The borders of Europe – human rights and the consequences of climate change” are the focus of the European Tolerance Talks 2016 in the Carinthian mountain village Fresach. Thus, the initiators of the Think.Tank.Fresach go straight ahead into the minefield of the current debate about refugees and how to manage the…
At the invitation of Club Carinthia the Fresach.Think.Tank presented its program for the European tolerance talks 2016 on 3rd November in Vienna. On the podium were Fresach President Johannes Swoboda, the bishop of the Evangelical Church of Austria, Michael Bunker, the environmental historian Verena Winiwarter and PEN president Helmuth A. Niederle. For the Carinthian touch…
PEN Club Austria, the Evangelical Church and the Club Carinthia on Wednesday presented the program of the European Tolerance Talks in Vienna. The international event from 21st to 23rd May 2015 in the Carinthian mountain village Fresach with the theme “How far does tolerance go? Tasks for the state, economy and society” is curated by…
“Where poverty is, we have the biggest problem. Not where the wealth is”, EP Dr. Hannes Swoboda said at the first meeting of the Board on November 6, 2014 in Villach. The President of Denk.Raum.Fresach and former leader of the Social Democratic Party in the European Parliament, praised the initiative to found the Association for…