E-Paper The Jadar Project, Serbia history, context and concerns By Jovan Rajić, Tibor Moldvai, Johanna Sydow and Katja Giebel Published: March 2025 Concerns about Serbia’s Jadar project grow due to irregularities by authorities and Rio Tinto. Issues like sustainability failures, activist repression, unlawful assessments, corruption, and political influence, erode trust. This briefing covers the developments, concerns, and implications.
Policy Paper Rebuilding Credibility in EU Enlargement Policy Impetus for the EU reform debate By Marina Vulović Published: November 2024 The European Union has many candidates for membership. It is currently conducting negotiations with Albania, North Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, the accession processes are complicated. The current policy paper on the reform debate analyses the arguments for and against a rapid enlargement of the EU and provides recommendations for policy-makers.
Policy Paper Shaping a Future-Fit Common Agricultural Policy Impetus for the EU reform debate By Phillip Brändle Published: November 2024 For more than half a century, the European Union's agricultural policy has focussed primarily on increasing agricultural productivity and the cost-effective production of food. This policy paper provides recommendations for action that are largely possible without amending the EU treaties.
Policy Paper Strengthening the EU’s Global Capacity to Act Impetus for the EU reform debate By Dr. Jana Puglierin Published: November 2024 The EU needs a resolute and coherent common European foreign policy to strengthen its political weight worldwide.The recommendations for action in this paper are to be understood primarily as a call to Member States to make better use of the existing scope for action within the EU treaties.
Policy Paper Accelerating the European Energy Transition Impetus for the EU reform debate By Julian Schwartzkopff Published: October 2024 In order to advance the European energy transition and distribute the costs and benefits more fairly, the EU must find better steering instruments. This policy paper provides recommendations for the necessary acceleration of the European energy transition.
Policy Paper Shaping the EU's Financial Architecture for the Future Impetus for the EU reform debate By Dr. Margit Schratzenstaller and Dr. Philipp Heimberger Published: July 2024 The European Union faces the enormous challenge of having to achieve the necessary climate targets it has set itself, while at the same time increasing industrial competitiveness and ensuring public services of general interest. A sustainable European financial architecture based on three pillars is needed to finance these green-social investments at EU level. It is presented in this policy paper.
E-Paper Addressing Afghanistan’s Climate Induced Exodus Water Scarcity Driven Displacement in Southern Afghanistan By Hamzah Published: June 2024 In Southern Afghanistan, an urgent crisis is brewing. Water scarcity is driving large-scale displacement and migration, threatening to escalate into a global issue. Decades of drought have depleted traditional water sources, pushing communities to rely on unsustainable groundwater extraction.
Policy Paper Buffer Stocks against Inflation Public Food Stocks for Price Stabilization and their Contribution to the Transformation of Food Systems By Isabella M. Weber, Merle Schulken, Lena Bassermann, Lena Luig and Jan Urhahn Published: June 2024 The build-up of national, regional and global public buffer stocks for food can help stabilise prices on global agricultural markets and limit inflation.
Publication #exitplastic Now! The Manifesto By EXIT PLASTIK Civil Society Alliance for Ways out of the Plastic Crisis Published: May 2024 The manifesto for social and structural changes to solve the plastics crisis. A civil society call to #exitplastic. Now!
Böll.Thema 1/24: Europe A Promise Published: March 2024 War in Europe, the escalating climate crisis, Europe's position in the global power structure: The EU faces historic challenges. With this issue of the Boell.Thema magazine, we aim to inform about the history and future of the EU.