Arts and Sciences
Program
(recent
activity)
Youth,
Education and Culture in the
New Europe
November 6, 2004
Dr. Jan Figel
Dr. Jan Figel is the Commissioner-Designate
for Education, Training, Culture
and Multilingualism of the European
Union. Dr. Figel has served
as Head of the Foreign Relations
Committee of the Slovak Republic’s
National Council, dealing with
Slovak Republic’s National
Council, dealing with Slovakia’s
accession to the EU. He has
been a Member of Parliament
since 1992.
Dr. Figel lectured at our major
international conference entitled
“Human Dignity and the
Failure of Communism” which
was held at Castle Neuwaldegg
(Vienna).
As commissioner for the education,
culture and youth to the European
Union, Dr. Figel affirmed the
importance of culture and education
as ways to foster and protect
the dignity and rights of every
individual. He called the over
250 participants from 35 different
nations to build a “culture
of freedom with responsibility
for human dignity”.
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