{"id":280,"date":"2022-05-09T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/janfigel.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2025-12-05T01:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:15:33","slug":"iti-interview-with-jan-figel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janfigel.com\/sk\/2022\/05\/09\/iti-interview-with-jan-figel\/","title":{"rendered":"ITI Interview with J\u00e1n Fige\u013e"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ITI Interview with J\u00e1n Fige\u013e\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-wLNRLVEj_s?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-3ria3\">On Tuesday 10 May 2022, the ITI welcomed to campus J\u00e1n Fige\u013e under the guise of the Adenauer Forum for a conversation on Catholic Public Leadership with ITI\u2019s President, Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau. Mr. Fige\u013e was instrumental in providing leadership to his native Slovakia as it transitioned from communism and the Soviet Bloc to democracy and the European Union. After Slovakia joined the European Union, Mr. Fige\u013e was European Commissioner for Education, Training, and Culture and then returned to Slovakia for several more years to serve in various leadership roles in the Slovak government. Following that, he returned to the European Commission to serve as its Special Envoy for the Promotion of Freedom of Religion or Belief outside the E.U. where he was instrumental in helping to free several people who had been jailed due to their faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-9k6hu\">Mr. Fige\u013e and Dr. Geusau\u2019s conversation ranged from his adolescence under totalitarianism, his experience on the ground floor of Slovakia\u2019s political transition, and his time serving in various leadership roles in Slovakia and Europe. 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