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Events

26

May

Berlin Forum on Global Cooperation 2025

Conference Monday, 26. May 2025 in Berlin

From Disruption to Transformation
Livestream
26

May

Sustainable development and the crisis of US hegemony

Lecture Monday, 26. May 2025 in Berlin

With Adam Tooze - Historian, publicist and co-editor of the business magazine Surplus
Livestream
27

May

Böll.Global | Gaza is starving - and the world is watching?

Online discussion series Tuesday, 27. May 2025

How humanitarian aid is blocked, politicized and turned into a weapon of war
Livestream
27

May

The Self-deception Trap

Book presentation and discussion Tuesday, 27. May 2025 in Berlin

On dependencies and the vision of equal partnership
02

June

Those tempered at daybreak: LGBTQ* eyewitness reports of the war in Ukraine

Exhibition Monday, 02. June 2025 – Monday, 30. June 2025 in Berlin
02

June

LGBTQ* in Ukraine: Diversity and resistance during the war

Event Monday, 02. June 2025 in Berlin

Livestream

Regions

Ein Konferenzraum voller Teilnehmer*innen. Auf der Leinwand steht „Courage to Stand Up for Democracy“. Laptops und Mikrofone sind auf den Tischen.

Greens in the EU election: down in the West, up in the East, South and North

Analysis

2019 was an extraordinary election year for the European Green Party, and it was clear from the beginning of the 2024 campaign that it would be tough to match it again this year. While the Greens lost seats overall, most of the losses were concentrated in Germany and Western Europe, while the bloc was able to pick up new seats in the South and East.

By Tobias Gerhard Schminke

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Silenced Voices, Rising Movement: The Fight for LGBTQ+ Rights in Iran

Analysis

Despite enormous challenges, the LGBTQ+ movement in Iran has come a long way in the last years. Queer individuals actively participated in the Women, Life, Freedom protests. However, the isolation and solitary existence of the movement remains a challenge.

By Rezvaneh Mohammadi

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The choice at the US ballot box will be a stark one for climate policies. This paper explores how the EU and its member states could adjust their climate policies, depending on the outcome of the US election.

By Rachel Tausendfreund , Mareike Moraal and Loyle Campbell

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US Elections and European Cohesion: Scenario Implications for Ukraine and Transatlantic Security

Policy Paper

The fate of Ukraine’s battlefield will be decided at the US ballot box. This paper explores how the European Union and its Member States could adjust their Ukraine and NATO policies, depending on the outcome of the US election.

By Rachel Tausendfreund and Roderick Kefferpütz

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EU accession of Western Balkans: Stale technical processes need bold political steps

position paper

This revived hopes in the Western Balkans that the more than decade-long stalled process would finally start to move faster.

By Agon Maliqi

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Agriculture Atlas 2019

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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

Berlin Forum on Global Cooperation 2025

Sustainable development and the crisis of US hegemony

Böll.Global | Gaza is starving - and the world is watching?

The Self-deception Trap

Those tempered at daybreak: LGBTQ* eyewitness reports of the war in Ukraine

LGBTQ* in Ukraine: Diversity and resistance during the war

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Regions

Greens in the EU election: down in the West, up in the East, South and North

Silenced Voices, Rising Movement: The Fight for LGBTQ+ Rights in Iran

Publications

US Elections and European Cohesion: Scenarios for Green Transitions and Transatlantic Climate Action

US Elections and European Cohesion: Scenario Implications for Ukraine and Transatlantic Security