Anja Dargatz is the head of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s (FES) regional office in Venezuela. She previously headed the FES offices in Baden-Württemberg, Bolivia and Sudan. She worked in the Peace ...

Yaşar Aydın is a researcher at the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). The arrest of Istanbul’s mayor aimed to dismantle the ...

Polish daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita since October 2024. He joined Rzeczpospolita in 2008 as head of the national department, later becoming deputy editor-in-chief. He won the Grand Press award in ...

Theo Rauch is an adjunct professor at the Centre for Development Studies at the Institute of Geography at the Free University of Berlin. His work in development policy has focused on the possibilities ...

Cristinel Buzatu is a Romanian human rights lawyer, registered in the Bucharest Bar. He has an LLB and an LLM in Human Rights law and has extensive civil society experience, gained in the US, Hungary ...

Kirsten Hartmann is a policy officer in the Europe and International Politics programme at the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung. She studied international relations and peace studies in Erfurt, ...

Dr Patrick Rosenow is editor-in-chief of the magazine Vereinte Nationen, published by the United Nations Association of Germany (UNA-Germany, DGVN). His work focuses on the United Nations, ...

A deadly train crash exposed serious failures in Greece’s railway system and governance. Public distrust in institutions has only intensified since picture alliance / Reuters | Alexandros Avramidis ...

The freeze in funding for USAID from the new Donald Trump administration has sent a shockwave through international development. USAID was established by John F Kennedy, with programmes focused on ...

In late February, European diplomats faced a double shock at the United Nations. The source of the first shock was the Trump administration. The United States, which cooperated closely with European ...

The UN Climate Change Conference in Baku was shaken right at the start by the announcement that US President-elect Donald Trump was planning to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement once again.

As polarisation deepens, the rise of populism seems unstoppable. But focusing on shared values and local solidarity may just save democracy picture alliance / Anadolu | Luciano Adan Gonzalez Torres A ...