The future depends on
ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical
necessity.
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–
Karl R. Popper
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Der legitime Platz des
Liberalen ist zwischen allen Stühlen. Es darf
ihn nicht kümmern, wenn er von allen Seiten
beschimpft wird. Wer stark genug ist, den Vorwurf
der Linken zu ertragen und vor der Rechten nicht in
die Knie zu gehen, der kann auch der Zukunft
getrost entgegensehen – selbst
wenn der Liberalismus immer wieder totgesagt
wird.
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–
Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
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There are no magic answers,
no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we
face, just the familiar ones: honest search for
understanding, education, organization, action that
raises the cost [of imposition] for its
perpetrators or that lays the basis for
institutional change – and the
kind of commitment that will persist despite the
temptations of disillusionment, despite many
failures and only limited successes, inspired by
the hope of a brighter future.
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–
Erion Veliaj, mjaft.org
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society & politics
SWITZERLAND
- participating in and developing politics -
citizens (the sovereign), commune(s), canton(s),
federation, Europe (and world wide)
- associations, chambers, NGOs
EUROPE
- contemporary democracy systems
(CDS) - expertize, Swiss 'daily'
political experience for Europe and, as
far as possible, also emerging European
democracies / central and eastern
Europe (EED / CEE)
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CZECHIA
- supporting emerging political life,
movements, and a competent and integer
party - democracy by, for and with the
people, 'from bellow' - free citizens
are the sovereign (but first, they must
get basic rights and real justice)
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- Free
Europeans, don't leave yourself
alone! »,
released through Democracy
Europe,
26 Aug 03
(PDF, 24KB)
- Vrije
Europeanen, laat uzelf niet in het hoekje
drukken! »
(nederlands / vlaams), published by WIT,
15 Oct 03
(PDF, 28
KB)
- Svobodní
Evropané - nezůstávejte stranou
svých věcí! - My Švýcaři
se Evropě občas nestačíme
divit »
(česky), vyšlo, lehce zkráceno, v
HN,
3.6.05
- Corruption
- how, and why to avoid
it,
conference & workshop, Prague, 11 Nov 98, organized
by CERGE-EI, CPA, CSEE, ESCE/WSMO, HST, TI-CH,
TI-CZ
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