Meeting in the Soros-Funded Central European University in Vienna
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Madeleine Albright and Joschka Fischer in Vienna: "Trump is a real revolution
Old friends: Germany's former Secretary of State Joschka Fischer meets his former US counterpart Madeleine Albright in Vienna. (c) APA/HERBERT NEUBAUER (HERBERT NEUBAUER)
At the Central European University in Vienna, Madeleine Albright and Joschka Fischer discussed the lessons of 1989.
Vienna. In Joschka Fischer, the interjectionist woke up the former sponti and street fighter, who himself has a lot of experience as a troublemaker - and on the other hand as a Green Foreign Minister who had been the victim of verbal and colour attacks. The student had just raised to a tirade against Madeleine Albright against neoliberalism, the "NATO war machine" in the Balkans and the "fascism" of Donald Trump when Fischer gallantly drove her into the parade.
"I fought against capitalism for ten years, and it worked very well," Fischer etched at the start of a panel discussion at the recently launched Central European University (CEU) in Vienna. The sarcasm of a 71-year-old who has shed his skin several times in the course of his career and matured into an elder statesman - in a blue jacket and jeans - was the result.
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Fischer's career from revolutionary to chief diplomat and world enlightener reflects the motto of the event: "Avoid walls. The lessons of 1989" Joschka Fischer and Madeleine Albright, the former foreign ministers of Germany and the USA, offered the students a 90-minute seminar on contemporary history and Realpolitik on Thursday. The son of German-Hungarian emigrants and the daughter of Jewish-Czechoslovakian emigrants met mostly Central and Eastern European students in their twenties who had benefited from the fall of the Iron Curtain, at the time of which most of them had not yet been born.
Albright, then a political scientist, recalled the days and weeks of euphoria that contrasted with the present - the rise of "hypernationalism", the ambivalent side of "faceless" globalization and high-tech. She names mistakes: "We underestimated the effect of the penetration of authoritarianism, and we were too preoccupied with the elites." Viktor Orbán, in 1989 as dissident "Everybody's Darling", and Hungary are the best examples for them of how things could have turned negative. Their conclusion: democracy has not always fulfilled what it promised….