On Feb 25th, the Governor of Carinthia, Peter Kaiser, presented the program and goals of the European Tolerance Talks 2021 in Klagenfurt – together with Villach’s Vice Mayor Gerda Sandriesser, Superintendent Manfred Sauer and the President of the Board, Hannes Swoboda,  “The pandemic has brought about many changes – one of the most important changes is
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“Just like in sport, we should do it in daily life. Fairness and respect always pay off in the end,” appealed the multiple table tennis world champion and Paralympics winner Jochen Wollmert during an online discussion on Wednesday evening on the occasion of the program presentation of the European Tolerance Talks 2021. The topic of
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Jochen Wollmert is multiple table tennis world champion and Paralympics winner, German Paralympics athlete of the decade and the first German table tennis player in the “Hall of Fame” of the world association. On Ash Wednesday from 6 p.m. he will be guest in the tolerance forum live stream on the subject of fairness in
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Fairness and tolerance in times of the pandemic are the keywords with which the organizers of the European tolerance talks are going into 2021. The consequences of the pandemic extend far beyond physical integrity and health and affect the economy, culture and sport equally. What must be done now so that our social structure continues
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A virus, of all things, has given globalization critics, right-wing populists and supporters of isolationist politics new tailwind. Trump’s America and Johnson’s Great Britain prepared the ground for a climate of exclusion, demarcation and containment – and thus caused new signs of decline. Even if there is an economic boom after the end of the
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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
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