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The ecological transformation of the market economy can not be achieved with a solely top-down approach. To deliver it has to be counter-balanced by a bottom-up ecological dynamic, one that includes eco-farmers and high-tech companies, inventors and investors, environmental organisations and enlightened consumers.

Traditional emphases of the Heinrich Böll Foundation include support for environmental activists and grassroots groups in the areas of mining, biodiversity and water. Both currently and in the future, the topic of "Energy" will come to the forefront as well.

Internationale Migration ist heute eine zentrale Herausforderung für viele Staaten. Mehr denn je wurde in den letzten Jahren deutlich, dass die Migrationspolitik der EU reformiert werden muss. Hauptziel der dreitägigen Konferenz der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung ist, konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen für die europäische Migrationspolitik zu formulieren.

There can be no return to “business as usual” for as long as Russia acts as an occupying power in Georgia and refuses an internationally brokered solution to the conflict. The upcoming EU emergency summit must send a clear signal to this effect.

Only if Georgia succeeds in building a dynamic and attractive democracy, the populations of Abkhazia and South Ossetia will have a real choice – between a democratic Georgia and an authoritarian Russia.