JÁN FIGEĽ

First Slovak European Commissioner
First Special Envoy for Religious Freedom outside the EU
Founder of European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
President of Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe (FOREF)

Key Domains of My Lifelong Engagement

Religious Freedom
and Human Dignity and Rights

Europe – Peace, Integration and Innovation

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  • The next steps for Vocational training

    High level conference: “Strengthening European Cooperation inVocational Education and Training” Maastricht, 15 December 2004 Distinguished guests,Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with great pleasure and enthusiasm that I open thisconference. This is one of my first official duties on the educationand training front since taking office as European Commissioner. As I was getting familiar with my…

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  • Reforming higher education

    Charles UniversityPrague, 6 December 2004 Distinguished Rectors,Ambassadors,Professors,Ladies and Gentlemen,Dear European citizens, It is a great pleasure for me to meet you at the oldest university in Central Europe. I wish to thank your Rector, Professor Ivan Wilhelm, for his kind invitation to talk to you about the policies of the new Commission for higher education.…

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  • Creating the Europe of Knowledge

    World Conference of the European Association for Education Lawand Policy (ELA), University of AmsterdamAmsterdam, 26 November 2004 Ladies and gentlemen,This is a very interesting time for me to have taken up the education portfolio at theEuropean Commission.In the past, there has been much resistance—on legal grounds—to a EuropeanUnion involvement in education. Member States were careful…

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  • The future of the Lisbon Strategy committing Europe for Growth

    European People’s Party – Economic and Social PolicyCommittee Conference on the future of the Lisbon StrategyBrussels, 25 November 2004 Ladies and Gentlemen, As we approach the half-way stage to 2010 many questions are being asked about the future of the Lisbon strategy is it still valid, is it still achievable and so on. These questions…

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  • Priority Európskej komisie v rokoch 2004 – 2009

    8. novembra 2004, SFPA Bratislava Počas uplynulých piatich rokov došlo k zásadnej zmene politickéhoa inštitucionálneho rámca Európskej únie. Tieto roky môžeme charakterizovaťako obdobie nepretržitých rokovaní o inštitucionálnych reformách. Dovoľte mispomenúť tri hlavné medzníky: Obdobie predchádzajúcej Komisie bolo teda charakterizovanépredovšetkým vstupom do platnosti dvoch Zmlúv, priebehom dvochmedzivládnych konferencií a prípravou Ústavnej zmluvy. Okrem týchtoinštitucionálnych zmien pôsobenie…

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  • Vystúpenie J. Figeľa v Európskom parlamente (hearing)

    27. septembra 2004, Brusel Vážení páni predsedovia,panie poslankyne a páni poslanci,ctení hostia, milí priatelia! Portfólio, ktoré mi bolo pridelené, je široké z hľadiska obsahu, vykonávaných aktivít,ako aj vnútorného riadenia. V generálnych direktoriátoch, ktoré by mali spadať do mojej pôsobnosti, pracuje v súčasnosti 4067 pracovníkov (pozn.: DG EAC – 713, DGT -1901, SCIC – 669, OPOCE…

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  • Figeľ pre Washington Post

    Nedorozumenia z minulosti nesmú podkopať politickú súdržnosť strednej Európy, citoval mienkotvorný americký denník Washington Times štátneho tajomníka Ministerstva zahraničných vecí SR Jána Figeľa. Denník Figeľa predstavuje ako “muža, ktorý dozerá na snahu Slovenska stať sa členom Severoatlantickej aliancie a Európskej únie”. Figeľ počas nedávnej návštevy USA redaktorovi denníka Washington Times povedal, že otvorenie diskusie o…

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