Many of the anniversaries we mark in 2024 will remind us of how we overcame separation and division, but also of the fact that the task of reuniting Europe is yet to be accomplished. EU enlargement is in our own best interest – after all, a safe and stable neighborhood makes us all safer and Europe more stable.

War in Europe, the escalating climate crisis, Europe's position in the global power structure: The European Union faces historic challenges. The year 2024 will determine how things will proceed.

The Europeanization of German identity runs like a red thread through Germany's post-war history and is also evident in its performances at the ESC: Germany presents itself as cosmopolitan.

The Global Feminist Pitch 2021 presents eleven feminists from Malawi, Brazil, Lebanon, Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nepal, Morocco and India who have realised nine projects on feminist resistance and resilience in social media in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Global Feminist Pitch has been back to support feminists from Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and (Southern) Eastern Europe. We have selected twelve feminists this year who write on the topic of feminist mobilisation in their region. 

The Global Feminist Pitch 2023 continues to support feminists from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and (Southern) Eastern Europe. This year we are once again delighted to present the selected feminists to you. 

To achieve international climate and development goals, developing and emerging countries would need an additional three trillion US dollars annually. But the Global South is currently groaning under the weight of an unmanageable debt burden. It’s time for a debt cut.

The almost 70-year history of the ESC reads like a seismograph of the cultural and socio-political situation in Europe on many levels.

For one evening, a global audience watches a show staged with the most elaborate means at the height of technical feasibility. What makes the ESC one of the most fascinating media events of our time?

Although the ESC was not intended as an instrument of European integration, it has become a symbol of it - even if the relationship between national and European identity is contradictory.