Pluralism

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Peloni: Freedom of speech and pluralism are fundamental elements of democracy

At the end of the year Dnevnik.bg asked philosophers, political scientists, sociologists and observers to assess political 2020 and make predictions for 2021. The outgoing year has already been described by Time Magazine as the most horrible for our contemporaries. Was it possible to predict 12 months ago? Has anyone been able to predict the political crisis?

During Greece's economic crisis, the country saw the evolution of a new kind of journalism which considers attacks on the traditional media as its mission. It comes as no surprise that Kathimerini's culture of pluralism is viewed by the representatives of this kind of journalism as alien.

For the third time, the building of the National Palace of Culture will shine in the colors of the rainbow on the occasion of the International Day of Tolerance, reported the Bulgarian National Television.

An Istanbul court has ruled unanimously in favor of a family’s request to exempt their child from middle school religion classes, on the grounds that “the content of the curriculum should be objective and pluralist.”

The official launch of the 2nd International Conference on “Religious and Cultural Pluralism and Peaceful Coexistence in the Middle East” was declared by the President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopios Pavlopoulos.

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias (l) welcomes Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios (r) at the 2nd International Conference on Religious and Cultural Pluralism and Peaceful Coexistence in the Middle East, in Athens, Monday. Organized by Greece's Foreign Ministry, the two-day forum, first held in 2015, aims to promote ties between the region's different religious and cultural groups.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis does not rule out entering a future government coalition should he be elected to lead a new center-left political party next month.

'Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East' by Nicolas Pelham (Columbia Global Reports, 183 pages, $14)