Dialogue for Europe

Dialogue for Europe

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…

No blanket ban on headscarfs in German schools

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…

EU Commissioner warns of rising intolerance

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…

Fresach creates European Tolerance Center

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…

Fresach creates European Tolerance Center

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.…

Project presentation in Klagenfurt

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…

Tolerance talks

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…

Hannes Swoboda

Tolerance as a mission

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…