Comedian Hosea Ratschiller and 70 students asked questions, and Hatto Käfer, a well-versed EU expert and former Commission official, delivered dry answers. This year’s youth forum at the Neue Bühne Villach was an entertaining hour of democracy education for young and old. The topic: Europe in Madness – Only with Humor ? was met with…
In his opening speech at the European Tolerance Talks in the Carinthian mountain village of Fresach, the editor of the Vienna city newspaper FALTER, Armin Thurnher, called for a Europe-wide strengthening of public broadcasting as a counterweight to the global power of the tech giants. For him, it is “completely otherworldly that our rulers do…
The Viennese political scientist and integration researcher Sieglinde Rosenberger was awarded the European Tolerance Prize for Democracy and Human Rights by the City of Villach in Fresach on Thursday evening. According to the jury, Rosenberger had sensitized generations of students to political participation, diversity and inclusion. Sieglinde Rosenberger researches and teaches at the University of…
For the well-known journalist and democracy advocate Roger de Weck, the time of right-wing populists is over. But in order to strengthen democracy, it urgently needs to be modernized, said the former “Die Zeit” editor and head of Swiss television during an exciting panel discussion in Fresach. He is optimistic that politics can free itself…
The European Union did quite well during the pandemic. But in order for the pan-European project to really have a future, it needs the will to change. That was the rsult of the panel discussion “New globalization, old nationalisms” at the start of the European tolerance talks on Thursday in Fresach. In any case, the…
Bruno Kreisky Prize winner Roger de Weck has agreed to come to the European Forum of the European Tolerance Talks on May 20, 2021 in Fresach to discuss his award-winning book “The Power of Democracy. An answer to the authoritarian reactionaries” (Suhrkamp). In it, the well-known Swiss author and honorary doctorate from the Universities of…
Paradise concepts in politics, economics and society are the focus of the European Tolerance Talks 2018, which will take place during the Whitsun week from 16 to 19 May in Villach and Fresach. Over 40 authors and thinkers, scientists and cultural workers will discuss ways out of Europe’s current media-political crisis of meaning. This year’s…
Yearning for Europe About the search for the Lost Paradise With the main theme 2018, the initiators of the “Denk.Raum.Fresach”, try to analyze – in the year of the Austrian EU Council Presidency – the manifold issues, irritations and even tensile tests to which the European integration project is currently exposed. What follows on Brexit,…
The participants in the European Tolerance Talks 2017 in the Carinthian mountain village of Fresach have drawn up a Declaration of Freedom which will be presented to the provincial government in Klagenfurt, representatives of the federal government in Vienna and later the European Parliament in Brussels. The “Fresach Freedom Charta” was created by intensive discussions…
Peter Heintel, professor for philosophy and group dynamics at the Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt for many years, spoke in Fresach about the pros and cons of freedom. Freedom has developed over the centuries from dependencies. It is therefore associated with positive feelings and is regarded as an instrument of self-empowerment. In authoritarian systems and dictatorships…