European Council for Tolerance and Reconciliation
The European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation ( Engl. : European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation ; ECTR ) is a non-governmental organization , which at 7. October 2008 in Paris , was founded around the tolerance monitoring in Europe. Vyacheslav Moshe Kantor is the chairman of the ECTR and the European Jewish Congress .
The ECTR sees itself as a “watchdog” for tolerance and prepares practical recommendations for governments and international organizations to improve interreligious and interethnic relations in Europe.
In 2013, the ECTR presented a European framework statute to the EU Parliament for the national promotion of tolerance, which has met with criticism with regard to possible threats, in particular to freedom of expression .
Members
The ECTR includes a. the following people:
- Vyacheslav Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress and President of the World Holocaust Forum
- José María Aznar , former Prime Minister of Spain ;
- Erhard Busek , former Vice Chancellor of Austria ;
- Georges Vassiliou , former President of Cyprus ;
- Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga , former President of Latvia ;
- Rita Süssmuth , former President of the German Bundestag ;
- Igor Sergeevich Ivanov , former Foreign Minister and President of the National Security Council of the Russian Federation , Professor of MGIMO University ;
- Milan Kučan , former President of Slovenia ;
- Alfred Moisiu , former President of Albania ;
- Göran Persson , former Prime Minister of Sweden ;
- Tony Blair , British politician, former UK Prime Minister ;
- Vilma Trajkovska , President of the Boris Trajkovski International Foundation;
- Talât Sait Halman († 2014), former Turkish minister of culture and professor at Bilkent University .
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ectr.eu: ECTR members. In: kompan.pl. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
- ^ European Framework National Statute for the Promotion of Tolerance
- ↑ Peter Mühlbauer : Intolerantes Toleranzpapier , in: Telepolis , September 22, 2013.