Saturday, 10 October 2020

Book Presentation with the Presidents of Austria and Slovenia

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On 10 October Jürgen Pirker presented the book "Problems and Perspectives of the Protection of Ethnic Groups" to the Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and the President of Slovenia Borut Pahor, as well as to the Ministers Susanne Raab and Helena Jaklitsch and the Governor of Carinthia Peter Kaiser.

On this occasion the editors Gerhard Hafner, Karl Hren, Heinrich Neisser, Martin Pandel, Jürgen Pirker, Günther Rautz, Kathrin Stainer-Hämmerle and Martha Stocker were able to present the entire book series "skupno/gemeinsam 2020" to the presidents and ministers: "New and old minorities. Integration, Law and Politics" (2018), "Borders - Separation and Connection 1918-2018 "(2019) and "Problems and Perspectives of the Protection of Ethnic Groups. 100 years after the Carinthian Plebiscite".

Newspaper report (Sonntag) about the 100th anniversary of the Carinthian Plebiscite and the book presentation (German): here.

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