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06.07.2017News

Confronting Intolerance and Bigotry

Soon after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom and the American Jewish Committee jointly set up the “Promoting Tolerance...

26.06.2017Analysis

The Future of NATO, Propaganda and Cyber Security

This year’s “Future of Freedom” annual consultation was all about security. The meeting was held in a region that has not been safe from aggression and war since 2014: Eastern Ukraine.

06.06.2017News

25th Anniversary of the Promoting Tolerance Program in Berlin on 15 June

For a quarter of a century the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in cooperation with the American Jewish Committee (AJC) has worked together on the Promoting Tolerance Program. The Program was...

23.05.2017News

A New Security Policy for Eastern Europe?

In its modern history, since the Cold War, Europe has never been more challenged internally and externally to preserve its liberal values, identity, integrity and peace. And while several years ago...

09.05.2017Analysis

Press Freedom Increasingly Under Pressure Worldwide

The renowned non-governmental organisation Reporters Without Borders (RWB) has published its World Press Freedom Index – and, regrettably, the trend from past years has been confirmed: press freedom...

24.04.2017Analysis

Not a Bit of Self-Doubt

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reached his goal: with the approval of a narrow majority, Turkey implemented a system change from a parliamentary democracy to a presidential democracy “a la turca”. According to...

President Erdogan Supporters. Istanbul, Turkey.

17.04.2017Message

The Turkish Patient

Now we have it in black and white: The Turkish society is deeply divided! In the historical referendum on the constitutional change, President Erdoğan and his government celebrated a conceivably...