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The Open Society Institute committed over 2 million to assist the government in closing a large institution for people with intellectual disabilities.

But they cannot destroy an open society.

Internally, Europe should remain both an open society and an open economy.

Violeta Gligoroska, who works for the Open Society Institute, was handed recordings of numerous conversations she had had with journalists applying to the foundation for support.

That is surely good, especially in an open society.

China, which remains a closed society in many ways, has an open mind, whereas the US is an open society with a closed mind.

In particular, they cannot create a liberal order and open society.

A free society should be open to discussing such a claim.

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I believe it is easy to find the European Union embodies the principle of open society, which could serve as a force for a global open society.

I remain committed to helping the development of open society in Ukraine.

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Paradoxically, the most successful open society in the world, the US, does not properly understand the first principles of an open society indeed, its current leadership actively disavows them.

The EU embodies the principles of an open society to a remarkable extent.

To that end, I recently established an Open Society Initiative for Europe (OSIFE).

Honest discussion of unpopular ideas is a key feature of an open society.

I am a member of about ten Google groups. A Google group is an institute of civic society.

Ophthalmological Institute.

Germany is a well functioning democracy with an overwhelming majority for an open society.

I established Open Society Foundations in all the countries of the former Soviet Union.

Opening up the past to public scrutiny is part of maintaining an open society.

Conversely, private firms tend to support a more open and competitive economy and society.

But embracing cosmopolitanism also means that once a society admits new members, those members are obliged to open themselves to their new society.

Err too far on the side of liberty and the society is open to attack.

But Ukrainians have now given their seal of approval to democracy and an open society.

The discussion about religion s role in government and society is now out in the open.

The Assange case shows that no coup is needed to close down an open society.

The strength of an open society lies in its ability to recognize and correct its mistakes.

The idea that might is right cannot be reconciled with the idea of an open society.

Ten years after the rest of postcommunist Europe, Serbia must begin establishing an open, democratic society.

Instead of evolving as an open, liberal society, Japan had developed a dirigiste closed mercantilist nationalism.

Whether Hong Kong remains an open, liberal society has never been a major issue for them.

The concept of open society is based on the recognition that nobody possesses the ultimate truth.

Whether Hong Kong remains an open, liberal society has never been a major issue for them.

Kyrgyzstan remains perhaps the most politically open society in the region but one full of problems.

But attempting to live a closed life in an open society is bound to be self defeating and not something a liberal society should encourage.

For liberals, the question is never whether borders should be completely open or closed a society open to all would have no rights worth protecting, while a society closed to all would have no rights worth emulating.

George Soros, the enormously successful investor, has used much of his own wealth to establish the Open Society Institute, which has helped to underpin the democratic revolution in Central and Eastern Europe and to press for human rights worldwide.

The World Bank, the Open Society Institute, and the European Commission are co sponsoring a conference, Roma in an Expanding Europe Challenges for the Future, from June 30 July 1 in Budapest, with the Government of Hungary as host.

René Cassin Institute, 1986.

Is this really the best route to a vibrant economy and a civilized, cultured, and open society?

After a chaotic period, Russia is shedding the few attributes of an open society it had acquired.

They want the innovation that an open society generates, but without the intellectual freedom that defines it.