Looking back, the most encouraging outcome of the European elections held between 23 and 26 May 2019 is the substantial increase in voter participation. At 51.8 per cent it is 8 percentage points higher than five years ago.
On the occasion of the «Long Night of the Churches» in Vienna on 24 May 2019, the former President of the German Bundestag, Dr. Wolfgang Thierse, gave a very noteworthy lecture on the question "Is our society getting out of hand", which we present here in excerpts.
Erny Gillen, manager of the consultancy firm “Moral Factory” in Luxembourg, examines the ethics guidelines for artificial intelligence drawn up by a group of experts, and an EU Commission Communication on the same subject.