Böll·Europe

Data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that by mid-2021, 2.5 million people in the EU were refugees. Almost half of the latter are women. But is the journey to ‘safety’ safe for women? Refugees are people who have fled war, violence, or conflict and crossed an international border to find safety in another country. In fact, women and girls are exposed to unique forms...

Talking about the Green transition is all good and well. The big elephant in the room though: who is going to finance a green transformation of our economies and societies!?  Boiling it down to the essence: do we do it through the public or the private hand? At the macro- or European level, this can be translated into critically assessing the role and impact of two types of actors or set of rules:...

Demography was never a matter of just numbers or statistics. It was not just a question of birth rates or fertility rates. Historically, it was always part of social engineering by the state and by political elites. That's what Shalini Randeria, president and rector of the Central European University in Vienna said talking about the need to review how seemingly objective demographic data is used t...

Böll·Europe Podcast is the podcast of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union office in Brussels, hosted by Gail Rego. From climate and energy transition to democracy and human rights. From the rule of law and digital policy to gender democracy and migration. From economic and social policy, to EU foreign & security policy. These are just some of the topics we will analyse in the Böll·Europe Pod...