Schlagwort: Jean-Claude Juncker

  • Should We Beware of Wellness Apps?

    Health and lifestyle apps: Enhencing quality of life, improving medical research. On the downside: shaky and unsafe programming, aiming at controlling lifes, fostering trade of private data, supported by lawmaker’s games. Feeling gloomy about the self-determined future. Great future for sick people, indeed. Medical apps used for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases are admittedly…

  • When it becomes serious, you have to lie

    Jean-Claude Juncker, the new President of the European Commission, on April 20, 2011 during an event in Brussels: »When it becomes serious, you have to lie.« And he is convinced that citizens do not have the right to know everything: »I’m ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious…

  • Wenn es ernst wird, muss man lügen

    Jean-Claude Juncker, seit kurzem Präsident der Europäischen Kommisssion, am 20. April 2011 auf einer Veranstaltung in Brüssel: »Wenn es ernst wird,muss man lügen.« Und er ist auch davon überzeugt, dass Bürger nicht alles wissen müssen: »Ich bin bereit, als ungenügend demokratisch zu gelten, aber ich will ernsthaft bleiben […]: ich bin für geheime, verborgene Debatten.«