Young people seem to be well ahead of the adults in terms of tolerance. This is the result of a study of the Humboldt University in Berlin published on attitudes to society, religion and identity. Among 16 to 25 year old youngsters, more than 70 percent are in favor that it should be allowed Muslim…
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A blanket ban on headscarves for teachers in public schools is not compatible with the Constitution and freedom of religion. This was decided today by the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, Germany. “In order to justify a ban, an external religious expression would not only have to pose an abstract, but a sufficiently specific risk…
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Bishop Michael Buenker, Hannes Swoboda and PEN President Helmut A. Niederle are going to present the program of the 1st European tolerance talks on 18th March at a press briefing in the PEN Club Austria Bankgasse, 1010 Vienna. If you want to join this event, you are welcome! Please announce your coming via presse@denkraum.gostaging.at until…
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Extremism and intolerance threaten the social integration in the European Union according to EU Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans. Growing Anti-semitism, Islamophobia and homophobia are serious risks, the Dutch politician said during a visit to the Latvian capital Riga. Some even questioned the status of women, he warned. All this is “not acceptable”. Europe must strengthen the…
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Denk.Raum.Fresach to organize European tolerance talks in May 2015. Representatives of politics, business and culture presented the newly founded Denk.Raum.Fresach in Klagenfurt on Thursday, an association for tolerance and integration in Europe. The platform is going to organize European tolerance talks in the small mountain village Fresach on 22/23rd May 2015, and European Parliament President…
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Representatives of politics, business and culture on thursday, 22nd January, presented the newly founded Denk.Raum.Fresach in Klagenfurt, an association for tolerance and integration in Europe. The platform is going to organize European tolerance talks in the small mountain village Fresach on 22/23rd May 2015, and European Parliament President Martin Schulz has already agreed to come.…
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The new Dialogue Forum “DENK.RAUM.FRESACH” is going to introduce its organization on January 22nd, 2015 in the Foundation Hall of the Alpe-Adria-University Klagenfurt (University Street 65-67 at 9.30 a.m.). Media representatives and interested opinion leaders are welcome to the presentation of the Association for Tolerance and Integration in Europe, the program of the European Tolerance…
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The term tolerance has positive connotations already in Fresach. By inviting recognized international speakers (writers, philosophers and scientists) Fresach is now positioned as a European forum for dialogue and tolerance anchored thus sustained on the European cultural and knowledge map. The results of the dialogue are scientifically prepared and published. The European Tolerance talks are…
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The Borders of Europe Human Rights and the Consequences of Climate Change for Politics, Economy and Society With the main theme of 2016, the initiators of Denk.Raum.Fresach consciously go straight ahead onto the minefield of the current debate about refugees and how to manage the current situation. “We do not just watch and know better,…
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Where poverty is, we have the biggest problem. Not where the wealth is. Hannes Swoboda. 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, Hannes Swoboda, outlined the mission and the main tasks of the…
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