Beyond Washington and Beijing: Why Germany Needs the Global South Published: 19 December 2025 The US is largely falling away as a partner, China is binding the Global South closer. To help shape tomorrow’s world order, Europe needs new, credible platforms for climate, development, and fair trade rules – together with the emerging middle powers.
Rules or Deals? The EU’s Challenge in Regulating Corrosive Capital in the Western Balkans Published: 18 December 2025 The United Arab Emirates has become a major investor in the Western Balkans. With enlargement back on the agenda, the EU must ensure that foreign capital meets rather than undermines its governance standards.
Aleksandër Trajçe Executive Director, Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania (PRENA) Aleksandër Trajçe is the executive director of Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania (PRENA).
Iva Čukić Director, Ministry of Space Collective Iva Čukić is co-founder and director of the Ministry of Space collective in Belgrad.
Montenegro’s Choice Between Multiplying Deals or Setting Regional Standards Published: 17 December 2025 Montenegro stands at a crossroads: will it normalise exceptional, deal-driven investment practices, or set regional standards for transparent and rule-based development? The EU has a critical opportunity to guide this process.
Iliriana Gjoni Research Analyst, Carnegie Europe Iliriana Gjoni is a Research Analyst at Carnegie Europe, where she focuses on EU enlargement, governance, and investment dynamics in the Western Balkans.
“Queer Development Cooperation Also and Always Means Promoting Democracy” Published: 11 December 2025 In her speech at the conference “Protecting queer human rights against the global backlash – the responsibility of German development cooperation,” Julia Ehrt highlights the critical situation of LGBTIQ* movements and warns of a global drift to the right.
Brazil: Violence Against Environmental Defenders in the Amazon Rises Published: 10 December 2025 The protection of environmental and human rights defenders must be decisively strengthened in the Amazon and globally. For far too often, activists are still exposed to threats and violence.
Ciro de Souza Brito Lawyer from the University Federal of Pará, Brazil Ciro de Souza Brito is a lawyer from the University Federal of Pará, Brazil.
Reclaiming Tech: Tools for Territorial Defenders Facing Digital Repression Published: 10 December 2025 Across the globe, environmental defenders are facing growing digital repression. This publication explores how grassroots movements are resisting surveillance, online violence and gendered disinformation by reclaiming technology.
How the Women of Fondes Amandes Have Become Protectors of the Forest Published: 9 December 2025 Led by Iya Akilah and Kemba Jaramogi, the women of Fondes Amandes blend tradition and science to restore forests, fight fires, and revive communal practices – challenging climate colonialism with grassroots power.
The Optimism of Mutirão Faced Its Reckoning at COP30 in Belém Published: 8 December 2025 The Brazilian Presidency had promised that COP30 in Belém would be the “COP of truth” and “COP of implementation”, held in the spirit of Mutirão with the global community working together to face the climate emergency. It faced a reckoning instead.
Amy Li Baksh Freelance journalist Amy Li Baksh is a graduate of The University of the West Indies, focusing on sociological issues in Caribbean and Diasporic History and Literature.
Anne Klein Women’s Award 2026 Awa Fall-Diop Published: 8 December 2025 The 2026 Anne Klein Women's Award goes to Senegalese women's rights activist Awa Fall-Diop. As a pan-African feminist, she has been campaigning for gender equality for decades, often at the expense of her personal freedom.
Defending Dignity: Seyla Benhabib’s Arendtian Spirit in Dark Times Published: 5 December 2025 In 2025, the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought was awarded to Seyla Benhabib. Her work deals with the social, political, and moral conditions, that are necessary for human beings to recognize one another as equals.
Dr. Gaye İlhan Demiryol Professor for Political Science and International Relations at the Bogazici University Dr.
Jens Althoff Director Warsaw - Poland Office Jens Althoff has headed the Heinrich Böll Foundation's Regional Office in Warsaw since December 2025.
“International Jurisprudence Is at a Crossroads” Published: 28 November 2025 He documented war crimes and advised the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office: Senior Public Prosecutor Klaus Hoffmann on sexual violence in armed conflicts, digital evidence, and the current challenges facing international criminal jurisprudence.
Debt, Climate, and Geopolitics: What Really Moved the G20 and COP30 Published: 26 November 2025 The G20 Summit and COP30 converged at a time of exceptional strain on the multilateral system. As geopolitical divides widened, coalitions of the willing nonetheless succeeded in keeping especially debt sustainability on the international agenda.
Europe Must Help Africa Break the Cycle of Debt Published: 25 November 2025 Unsustainable debt burdens and escalating climate shocks have left African economies with little fiscal space to invest in their future. Without a reform of the global financial system, the continent’s development and Europe’s stability face growing risks.
Short Biography Awa Fall-Diop Published: 24 November 2025 Awa Fall-Diop, born in 1956, is a feminist coach and gender expert with over 30 years of experience in and about West Africa.
Statement of the Jury: The Anne Klein Women’s Award 2026 Published: 24 November 2025 The Senegalese Women’s rights activist Awa Fall-Diop is the recipient of the 2026 Anne Klein Women’s Award. For decades, this Pan-African feminist has campaigned for gender equality, often at the expense of her personal freedom.
Nana Akufo-Addo Former president of Ghana; Member of the African Leaders Debt Relief Initiative Nana Akufo-Addo is a former president of Ghana and a member of the African Leaders Debt Relief Initiative.
Europa-Atlas Published: 24 November 2025 Europe is more than just debt crises, bureaucracy, and national narrow-mindedness. This is demonstrated by the Europa-Atlas, published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in collaboration with the German Council on Foreign Relations, the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Le Monde Diplomatique.
Our Atlases Published: 20 November 2025 Our atlases convey knowledge in a particularly compact and clear format. Here you can order and download previous editions, or read the online version.
COP30 in the Amazon - Statement From the Heinrich Böll Foundation Published: 19 November 2025 The Heinrich Böll Foundation, operating in Brazil for 25 years and working in cooperation with various civil society organizations, publicly expresses its disagreement with the statement made by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on November 13th.
The “Alternative Diaspora” - Who Came to Berlin with the New Wave of Emigration from Azerbaijan? Published: 19 November 2025 A new wave of Azerbaijani migration is taking shape in Berlin - politically engaged, largely left-leaning, and critical of both the regime and the opposition back home.
