Democracy in Europe

Together with the Goethe Institute Thessaloniki we did a public screening of the movie “Citizen of Moria” and took our audience on a journey to Europe’s most notorious refugee camp. In a personal interview the filmmaker and protagonist  Ahmad Ebrahimi talks about the struggle of being forced to flee in search for protection.

Together with the Goethe Institute Thessaloniki, we presented the award-winning documentary "Citizen of Moria" on Monday, 05th of July 2021,  followed by an online Q/A with the film producer Jawad Mir and the co-producer and protagonist Sayed Ahmadzia Ebrahimi. The screening took place in the garden of the Goethe-Institut. Language of the film: English, without subtitles.

Today is World Refugee Day. A day chosen back in 2001 to honour the Geneva Convention for refugees and to remind the world of the plight of refugees worldwide. This year marks two anniversaries: the 20th World Refugee Day and the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Convention. This is a good moment to reflect on the state of global and European protection of those fleeing war and persecution.

By taking over the presidency of the Council in the second half of 2020, the German government would have had the opportunity to show leadership in the crisis. But many promises were not kept and the time for real action in such important policy areas as migration and climate policy was missed. Why couldn't Germany deliver?

On the relationship between anti-feminism and coronavirus conspiracies and how the coronavirus pandemic aids and abets anti-feminist trends.

Inmitten der größten Krise der EU übernimmt Deutschland die EU-Ratspräsidentschaft.

For many, the current depression is expected to be harsher than the historical Great Depression of 1929. The simultaneous collapse of both offer and demand is causing an economic downtrend of indefinite duration, that is highly dependent on the course of the pandemic in the following months.   

The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 disease has brought about an extraordinary situation. Although the past decades have brought numerous challenges like terrorism or the climate change, the global spread of a disease for which there is neither a cure nor vaccination available is something that political leaders have no experience in tackling.

Not only has the new coronavirus catapulted us out of our everyday lives, but the way the EU is handling the Covid-19 pandemic has made its inability to take action in times of crisis painfully apparent. Just as people are stranded at airports and railway stations, any hope that Europe is capable of pulling together has also been stranded in the last few weeks.

As European countries turn to apps to contain the pandemic, the EU must weigh the public health emergency against its own data protection rules. Policymakers and experts on data protection and privacy in Brussels warn that tracing and monitoring technology can undermine fundamental rights.