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Putin's Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022.
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Madam President of the European Commission, For an ethical artificial intelligence. Your European vision of Artificial Intelligence, giving primacy to ethics, continues to hold the full attention of the European Free Thought Association (EFTA). The European Association of Free...
Topic: Towards ethical artificial intelligence. Brussels, 9 November 2019. Madam President of the European Commission, Your European vision of Artificial Intelligence, giving primacy to ethics, has attracted the full attention of the European Association of Intellectual Property...
EUROPEAN UNION: DIGITAL TRANSITION, WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND NEW FORMS OF SOLIDARITY. Claude WACHTELEAR and Eric MAERTENS, coordinators of the Working Group The spread of digital technologies and its effects cover various fields: ethics, education, culture, work. AEPL is well aware that there are links...
Public lecture: «Secularism: a new idea in Europe?« Paris, 9 February 2019 Claude Wachtelaer, President of the European Association for Free Thought (AEPL) The question that brings us together may come as a surprise. Why the concept of secularism – and, in Paris,…
The document "Europe autrement - de la nécessité de refonder l'Europe" (Europe differently - the need to rethink Europe) is the result of a consultation process that lasted almost two years with AEPL members. In it, they express their views on the future of a European Union capable of...
Lecture given by Claude WACHTELAER at the Secularism Congress (Kongres Świeckości), Warsaw, 21 & 22 October 2017. I have been asked to outline the Belgian and Dutch models of relations between the Churches and the State. I shall begin by addressing you…
"THE FUTURE OF EUROPE: AN EFFECTIVE UNION FOUNDED ON VALUES" Visit by our Past President of AEPL, Claude Wachtelaer, to the European Commission. Introduction First and foremost, it is vital for citizens to be reassured by policies that improve the quality of life of their...
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