The classical philologist and anthropologist Maurizio Bettini from the University of Siena (Italy) will open the European Tolerance Talks 2019 with a keynote on the topic “Home Abroad Earth – Who owns Europe?” on the 6th of June in the Carinthian mountain village Fresach. Born in Brixen (South Tyrol), his latest book “Roots: The Deceptive
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Home Abroad Earth Why we need Europe and have to fight bad developments. Who the enemies of the open society are and how they act to destroy democracy, tolerance and human rights, the great Austrian Karl Popper already described in his London exile in 1945 – just where the drama of “Brexit” takes place in
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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
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Within the framework of the European Tolerance Talks 2017 PEN Club Austria celebrated the 70th anniversary of its re-establishment with a reading and a “long night of literature” in the Carinthian mountain village of Fresach. PEN President Helmuth A. Niederle and Vice President Kurt F. Svatek therefor asked for the issuance of 20 Nansen passports
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