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Recent Dossiers

DOSSIER

Agroecology: Our Roots of Change

This dossier is a collaborative effort of Heinrich Böll Foundation offices and our partner organizations worldwide to highlight the diversity of agroecological initiatives within our global network. From community-led digital innovations to public policy strategies, it explores how agroecology redefines food systems and promotes people’s agency.

Shipwrecked. Rethinking migration and asylum in Europe

The complex issue of migration and asylum, in the light of the new EU Pact, was addressed at the major international congress "Shipwrecked. Rethinking migration and asylum in Europe", which we organised in Thessaloniki in June. Over 130 experts from all over the world – activists, lawyers, journalists, academics, politicians, members of civil society organisations – came to a number of alarming conclusions. Find here texts, as well as audio and visual material from the congress.

Feminist Foreign Policy

What is a feminist foreign policy? Is it just one or can it take many forms? To this day, such questions guarantee either a heated debate or profound confusion. In this analyses variété, we attempt to collect material from around the world, describing the various aspects of this narrative in an effort to go deeper, ask the tough questions and look for convincing answers. Feel free to roam and get to know better one of the most debated foreign policy narratives of our time.

Investigating migration along the Balkan Route and the EU’s external borders

At Heinrich Böll Foundation we are committed to supporting transparency and an informed factual debate on migration. This dossier aims at offering an alternative view to readers by gathering independent investigations and analyses, supported by us, on the realities regarding migration along the so-called Balkan route.

Recent Media

Agricultural crisis: causes and possible solutions in France, Germany and Greece

VIDEO

In order to better understand the agricultural crisis and the farmers' protests that took place in the winter of 2023-2024, the Thessaloniki and Paris Offices of the Heinrich Böll Foundation co-organised a public online event on 12 February 2024, where we discussed this issue with farmers and researchers from France, Germany and Greece. The discussion is recorded in this video.

‘Retrieved’: A Feminist Foreign Policy Podcast Series

PODCAST SERIES

The future of foreign policy can be better. In the five episodes of this series of podcasts, with the help of policy advisors, journalists, researchers, and politicians, we examine how feminist foreign policy can reflect the interests of all genders and often overlooked stakeholders: from peace-building and climate, to migration and defence policy, we look to examples from across the EU that show how this bold new model benefits society at large - and the challenges on the horizon.

Understanding the New Pact: How the EU is abolishing the right to asylum

VIDEO

Our partner organization Border Violence Monitoring Network recently hosted a webinar titled 'Understanding the Pact: How the EU is Abolishing the Right to Asylum', which we were happy to support. In light of the complexity and intransparency of the reform process, this webinar not only provided much needed elaborations on the proposed changes to the Common European Asylum System, but also the potential implications these would have in different EU Member States.

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10 years of Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Thessaloniki

ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION

In June 2012, the Heinrich Böll Foundation established its office in Thessaloniki and in June 2022 completed 10 years of presence in Greece. Now we present this rich ten-year journey in an anniversary publication, which includes highlights from the hundreds of events and activities that have taken place. Through this bilingual publication, the reader will be able to get a full picture of our actions and interventions, to better understand what a political foundation is, but also to get to know the quests of contemporary political ecology and the effort to come together with the quests of Greek society itself.

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EU Borderveillance

Report

Read the full analysis of the EU's border control strategy in the following research paper titled: "EU Borderveillance: Maritime Surveillance and Third Country Agreements." by our partner Refugees=Partners The attached research assesses the measures that the EU employs to inhibit migration across the Mediterranean Sea, particularly since the Arab Spring of 2011. Drones and satellites provide the EU with imagery that informs its responses to migrants in the Mediterranean Sea

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Participatory design: City, environment and climate change

PUBLICATION

This edited volume is a document of the conference of the same name organised by the Commonspace workers’ cooperative in November 2021 – one of the first focusing on participatory design. It contains the invited speakers’ and others’ contributions, and its six chapters reflect the contemporary debate on Participatory Design processes in different fields and scales, both in Greece and abroad.

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The social impact of energy communities in Greece

PUBLICATION

This report presents the impact of energy communities at a time when citizen participation in the energy transition and energy democracy emerge as particularly important issues. The report aims to inspire and inform citizens and institutions so as to deepen their understanding of the special characteristics of energy communities and take initiative in creating and supporting them.

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Externalisation of migration

Beyond Destruction

What awaits for Italy-Albania migrant deal?

Egypt: The EU’s unexpected ally against migration

Decoding the abstention from elections - Findings of a nationwide poll