Twenty years after the epoch-making change in 1989, which affected the post-Yugoslavian space in a way entirely different from other former “real-socialist” European countries, this study is an effort toward an analytical view on the past two decades of development of civil society in the western Balkans. The study shows: Without civic engagement, there will be no changes. By Srđan Dvornik more»

Gender Issues 2008 – The series is a result of cooperation between the Representation of Heinrich Böll Foundation in Poland with partner organizations from the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine. more»

Gender Mainstreaming – Gender Mainstreaming. How to use the political potential?

1st March 2009

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Miscellaneous gleanings on the flight back from Washington: Financial Times writer Paul Kennedy describes the shape of "our new post-excess neocapitalist political economy." According to Kennedy, we will experience "a higher-than-welcome degree of government interference in 'the market,' somewhat larger taxes … more»

Toward a Transatlantic Green New Deal – Toward a Transatlantic Green New Deal: Tackling the Climate and Economic Crisis
Prepared by the Worldwatch Institute for the Heinrich Böll Foundation. more»

Erene – Climate protection and a secure energy supply both are questions of our future. The European Union must set itself ambitious goals if it wants to maintain its political dynamic. A feasibility study by Michaele Schreyer and Lutz Mez in collaboration with David Jacobs. more»

There is no doubt that the states of the Western Balkans belong to the European Union. However, their road to the EU is by no means an easy one. The entire Western Balkan region is not only encumbered by the maladies related to its communist past, but also by the problems the region has more recently experienced due to the horrors of war. Many of the ethnic tensions have not yet cooled down. more»