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INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

[FOCUS] Intercultural Dialogue

02.06.2008 @ 08:50 CET

As an official media partner of the 'The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008', this special section of the EUobserver, produced in partnership with EuropocketTV, puts the spotlight on inter cultural issues and dialogue.

Ending EU patent 'jigsaw puzzle' key to innovation, says commissioner

18.12.2008 @ 08:20 CET

While EU countries remain mired in a decade-long disagreement over a patent system covering the entire 27-country bloc, the Americans are recruiting the Old Continent's best brains and capitalising big-time on their creativity, according to education and culture commissioner Jan Figel, who has set his mind on persuading European researchers to stay at home.

Dalai Lama urges EU to get involved in Tibet dispute

05.12.2008 @ 08:49 CET

Buddhist icon and Tibetan exile the Dalai Lama told MEPs on Thursday that Tibet was better off as part of China, but urged the EU to help the region gain greater autonomy, while attracting throngs of supporters and well-wishers in the EU capital.

Turkey's Alevi muslims look to EU for protection from intolerance

19.12.2008 @ 20:51 CET

In the light of the government's eagerness to fulfill EU-demands on religious freedom, one of Turkey's least known faith groups, the Alevis, are demanding official recognition of their distinctive interpretation of Islam. The followers say the governments uses the new decrees on religious freedom to impose only it's own, strictly Sunni-Islamic doctrines.

Bad journalism can aggravate racism, campaigners warn

07.11.2008 @ 10:04 CET

Journalists and politicians warned that Europe needs to steer a fine line between media freedom and dangerous sensationalism at a symposium in Brussels marking the end of the EU's year of intercultural dialogue.

Maltese wins EU 'Cultures on My Street' photo competition

26.09.2008 @ 17:22 CET

More than 2,000 entries were received in response to an invitation to visually portray the meaning of the 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. First prize in the contest went to Joseph Smith of Malta, for his image Village cobbler, in which a jumble of shoes, tools, religious ornaments and Elvis posters provide the crowded setting for a tradesman and the locals who often meet in his workshop.

Belgian filmmaking brothers in search of a European moral conscience

10.11.2008 @ 18:06 CET

If not all countries together regulate against abuse; in today's dog-eat-dog capitalist system, the abuser and the abused will just move from country to country. Europe is a fantastic chance to deal with this problem, two of the continent's most prominent filmmakers, have said.

Italy must face legal action for anti-Gypsy measures, says Soros

17.09.2008 @ 10:21 CET

Billionaire philanthropist and financier George Soros has said at a top-level EU conference on the problems facing Roma people in Europe that he supports legal action against Italy over recent anti-Gypsy measures, particularly the fingerprinting of adults and children.

Multilingualism a 'damned nuisance' says Dutch academic

15.09.2008 @ 18:35 CET

On the eve of multilingualism commissioner Leonard Orban presenting his first-ever - a new strategy bringing cultural issues, national identity and business interests together into one policy - a professor of sociology has bluntly stated that the continent's multilingualistic nature is fact an obstacle to serious political debate - and "a real pain in the neck".

Anti-gay bigotry spans European cultures

06.08.2008 @ 09:47 CET

Gay rights activists in EU-hopeful countries like Turkey and Moldova hope Brussels will help put an end to abuse by pushing anti-discrimination legislation in membership talks. But life for gay people even within the EU is haunted by experiences of hatred and bigotry - truly pan-European qualities.

Orthodox patriarch blesses Turkish EU entry

24.09.2008 @ 17:41 CET

Despite ongoing disputes over Christian and other religious minorities in Turkey, the world's leading Orthodox prelate, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, has endorsed Turkey's bid to join the European Union and appealed to Brussels not to make religious or cultural differences an obstacle to membership.

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