Prime Minister Janez Janša, who is under fire in Western media as Slovenia takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, may be clumsy on Twitter but he is not an autocrat, writes Žiga Turk.
Žiga Turk, a professor, two-time minister in Slovenia’s government and former…
By Herman Van Rompuy and Žiga Turk
The Conference on the Future of Europe is an exercise in democracy, and at the same time, the main theme of the Conference is European democracy. But the problem is broader: democracy itself is in crisis, write Herman Van Rompuy and Žiga Turk.
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Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša is the strongest challenger to a status quo in which the left has been in power in the country for too long.
Since Janez Janša took over the government of Slovenia this March, the left is in shock that they lost power. Despite COVID, they…
Technological progress is destroying the elites. On the other hand the elites tend to rely on a couple of wrong assumptions about the nature of man. …
The perspective that the Union is a project is holding us back. The Union simply needs to be pragmatic, writes Žiga Turk.
Žiga Turk is a professor at the University of Ljubljana. He has served as Slovenia’s minister for growth and was the secretary-general of the Reflection Group on the…
Competition is what makes the world a better place, not intelligent design by God or by bureaucrats. Therefore, protecting competition is one of the key responsibilities of the European Commission. But in the case of Android, it is about to make a huge mistake, writes Žiga Turk.
Žiga Turk is…
Fake news have been blamed for the election of Trump, the Brexit vote and the rise of populist parties in Europe. The High Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Fake News has been set up to suggest how to address the problem. The Report is the result of the mission of…
Its simple.
In the Theses on Feuerbach Karl Marx defined the agenda: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it”. “ Well, you know, we all want to change the world,” sang John Lennon.
Jordan Peterson has built a strong case that the changes can only be very limited. Peterson’s argument rests on inherited, hardwired culture. It is present in archetypal myths and legends that reflect millions of years old evolutionary memory. Jonathan Haidt’s work broadly confirms this by examining moral values of present time Americans.
Changes are near impossible. Impossible goals requite infinite efforts as gulags and concentration camps proved. Changing of the world will have to be postponed. The dream has been grounded with biology, evolutionary psychology, history and literature.
Depriving people of their dreams is dangerous.
There are some myths that drive the discussion about Fake News.
- Citizens have the right to be informed. Reliably informed.
No, and no. They have the “right to freedom to receive and impart information without interference from the governments”. They do not have a right to be informed in the…
Government intervention in the media and social media — in Europe known as tackling fake news — is usually justified by the “ citizens’ right to access diverse and reliable information”. …
