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Weimar Republic
Today I have in Europa.blog a post from Frederik D Tunnat with the title "What the current Germany and the Weimar Republic have in common' read with great interest.
Although this comparison has been tried again and again for a few years, it does not necessarily have to be correct. But I can fully understand the author's frustration, which is revealed in the question "What can we Germans actually do anymore?".
I, too, have been having more and more doubts about our own generation for a few years now, and I am horrified to see how the next generation "saddles up" - the previous federal ministers of this generation can no longer be surpassed in terms of incompetence, irresponsibility and criminal behavior - and this despite there were ministers like Schwarz-Schilling before!
Tunnat states in his contribution that "it seems that our politicians have lost the ability for social consensus as well as the ability for mutual give and take".
And yet he dares a positive outlook and appeals to the “traffic light negotiators”: “Please pull yourself together, get out of the fold, leave the ideological war trenches, put the well-being of society and the state first, and concentrate on that , to get the really no small and extremely urgent problems under control - they remained unresolved for 16 years, thanks to Ms. Merkel."
I'm afraid that this will only succeed to some extent once everyone involved has got their nests back on dry ground, because nothing changes that quickly in Germany.
Good ten years Winfried Kretschmann in the Länd can be taken as proof.
World Forum for Democracy
But Strasbourg also always has something new to offer; the annual Christmas market should be known to everyone in Heilbronn.
Since 2012 there is also the World Forum for Democracy (Forum Mondial de la Democratie), organized under the auspices of the Council of Europe. The World Forum is a platform for exchange and official debates on issues affecting our democracies.
The city of Strasbourg has already implemented a project that I would have liked to see in Heilbronn as well - and if possible as a supplement to Experimenta. I called the whole thing 2017 Center for Democracy and Culture; although this idea is a bit older, since I formulated it for the first time as district chairman of the EUROPA-UNION in 2005.
In any case, however, such networks, whether of a scientific or socio-political nature, are very important for civil coexistence, since they open up opportunities for everyone who is willing and promote human coexistence by their very existence. But maybe it also makes people curious about things that they would never have looked at in their everyday life.
Ecsite
Thanks Dieter schwarz many people in Heilbronn now know about the Ecsite network of European science centers and science museums. But the particularly good thing about it is that this network will be our guest in Heilbronn in summer 2022.
According to the Heilbronner Voice (November 11.11.2021, 21: 1), around 000 participants from over 50 countries are expected in Heilbronn, and will definitely enrich Heilbronn. In addition, it will certainly contribute to our city becoming a little better known again - and in a positive sense.
Anyone who would like to find out a little more about this network in advance will find it under this hyperlink a very attractive website. There on page 5 of the network members you will find "our" Experience as organizer of the 2022 Ecsite Conference, which will take place from June 2nd to 4th, 2022 in Heilbronn.
The 2022 Conference edition will be held at a very special place with a unique atmosphere: at a camp in the city of Heilbronn. With its surprising and unusual spaces, it will provide places and moments for stopping to take a deep breath, for reflection, for manifold inspiring encounters – and it will allow us to look at the things we do from new perspectives.
ecsite site, https://www.ecsite.eu/conference (11.11.2021)
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