Dialogue and national groups

On October 18th, 2012 in the House of Music in Klagenfurt The European Congress of National Groups took place, the thema was “Meeting, Dialogue and Culture: instruments of understanding within and among the national groups”. This congress was organised by the Office for Slovenian National Minority at the Carinthian Country Government. Numerous eminent persons were discussing, among others the ORF reporter in Belgrade mag. Christian Wehrschütz spoke about reconciliation in Southeast Europe, the Belgrade Archbishop Stanislav Hočevar spoke about respect of the identity, which promotes the complementation of life. The afternoon part of the programme began with the lecture of the publisher Lojze Wieser , who presented his thoughts about lost words, newly found , the recipes , which could ensure live words in the whole public space. This time the President of the AACC Bernard Sadovnik addresed the public, too, he pointed out the meaning of including the national groups in the cross border cooperation. He suggested to establish a geographically wide European region, inclusively Slovenia. Per his words Slovenia could – as a member of EU- take over an important and connective role.