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October

Sovereign Debt, the Climate Challenge, and Geoeconomics: Pathways for a Sustainable Global Response

Expert talk Tuesday, 14. October 2025 in Washington D.C.

High-level Event at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings 2025
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October

Between Repression and Hope: Hungary’s Civil Society and the Struggle for Democracy Ahead of the 2026 Election

Discussion Wednesday, 15. October 2025 in Berlin

Livestream
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October

Berlin Belarus Future Forum 2025 – For a democratic Belarus in Europe

Expert conference Monday, 20. October 2025 in Berlin
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October

Between Open Arms and Closed Borders

Expert conference Tuesday, 21. October 2025 in Berlin

A Decade of Flight and Arrival in Germany
Livestream
22

October

The desire for being many

Event Wednesday, 22. October 2025 in Berlin

Strategies of Weak Resistance
23

October

Reporting the Far Right

Discussion series Thursday, 23. October 2025

A Conversation with Holger Stark and Elisabeth Zerofsky
Livestream

Regions

Western Balkans and Ukraine: EU’s Role in Modernization through higher Climate Ambition

EU’s Role in speeding up energy transition in the Western Balkans and Ukraine

Documentation

Obviously, the destiny of sustainable transition of Western Balkan and Eastern European economies is above all in control of the respective countries themselves. Still, the EU is in a decisive position to create conditions for a dynamic of change and a successful modernisation.

Robert Sperfeld

Democracy is out of order: CEU forced to leave Hungary

Analysis

The Central European University (CEU) announced that it is forced to launch all degree programs in a new location in Vienna in September 2019. The Hungarian Government has made it impossible for the university to ensure its operations in Budapest on the long run.

Gabi Gőbl

All Regions

The grave financial and economic crisis that broke into full view in the fall of 2008 has dominated headlines and politics. The imagery of a Green New Deal is important in that it suggests an ambitious approach predicated on the need for strong government action and a decisive break with old policies.

Afghanistan’s Parliament in the Making

The involvement of women in Afghanistan’s public life is decreasing. Attacks, vigilantism, and legal processes that contradict the basic principles of human and women’s rights are the order of the day. This book, based on interviews of male and female members of parliament, examines the realities of parliamentary work in Afghanistan.

Urban Futures 2030: Urban Development and Urban Lifestyles of the Future

Publication Series on Ecology 5: The sustainable city of tomorrow faces not only ecological, but also major social challenges, and these are reasons enough to dedicate a conference and this associated compilation to urban development and urban lifestyles of the future.

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Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

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Publication Series

All Issues of Perspectives Asia

All Issues of Perspectives Africa

All Issues of Perspectives Latin America (Spanish)

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All Issues of Perspectives Southeastern Europe

All Issues of Perspectives Middle East & North Africa

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Heimatkunde is the migration policy portal of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Go to the GWI

The Gunda Werner Institute at the Heinrich Böll Foundation (GWI) pools gender policy and feminist topics.

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We declare our full solidarity with Ukraine. We stand by the side of our Ukrainian partners and colleagues and, at the same time, by the side of our partners in Russian civil society who are beset by harsh repression.

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Events

Sovereign Debt, the Climate Challenge, and Geoeconomics: Pathways for a Sustainable Global Response

Between Repression and Hope: Hungary’s Civil Society and the Struggle for Democracy Ahead of the 2026 Election

Berlin Belarus Future Forum 2025 – For a democratic Belarus in Europe

Between Open Arms and Closed Borders

The desire for being many

Reporting the Far Right

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Regions

EU’s Role in speeding up energy transition in the Western Balkans and Ukraine

Democracy is out of order: CEU forced to leave Hungary

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