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Thessaloniki, a city off topic?

VIDEO
For whom is Thessaloniki today? Could it become in the future a city that offers quality of life, employment opportunities, and prospects for personal development? How do different communities coexist? What does the degradation of public, especially green, spaces signify? These pressing questions were the focus of an open discussion about the city’s needs, the changes it requires, the challenges it currently faces, and the priorities it must set for the future to reverse the trend of people leaving or the underutilization of its potential. (available in Greek) 
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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.
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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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Decoding urban resilience in the Med

ONLINE DISCUSSION
On 29 June 2023, the Heinrich Böll Foundation offices in Thessaloniki and Paris organised this event, where the invited experts discussed critical data on the status of climate in the Europe and foreseen trends and presented examples on local adaptation and climate resilience strategies from Mediterranean cities in Greece, France and Italy.
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Neda Noraie-Kia on the shipwreck off Pylos

INTERVIEW
Three days after the refugee shipwreck off the coast of Pylos, on 18-06-2023, Deutsche Welle asked Neda Noraie-Kia, Head of Migration Policy Europe at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, to share her views on the tragedy and on the new migration and asylum policy promoted by the European Commission. Watch the short yet informative interview.
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How the media covers migration in different countries along the “Balkan route”

VIDEO
We have recently completed the publication of three e-papers on how the media covers migration along the so-called Balkan route, namely in Turkey, Greece, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. Here you can watch a short yet very informative video summarising the main findings of these three surveys.
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In defence of defenders: Criminalised solidarity in Europe

The toolkit "In defence of defenders: A practical guide to legal means and advocacy tools for criminalised Human Rights Defenders in Europe" is an attempt by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and the Border Violence Monitoring Network to present targeted Human Rights Defenders existing options for action and defence. You can watch the video of the launch event here.
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"Discussing the energy market and the energy crisis in simple terms. How can consumers be protected?"

ONLINE EVENT
The video of the online event that took place on 14 April 2022. Experts describe how the energy market works, explain why electricity bills are so expensive in Greece and make suggestions.
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Moving Cities: Another migration policy is possible

ONLINE EVENT
The “Moving Cities” website is a platform that brings together in a network around 700 cities and communities across Europe, which defend refugees’ rights and operate an active policy of welcome, often in opposition to the national governments. To mark the launch of the website, an online event was organised, which you can watch in the video.
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Bridges - Encounters on Migration and Asylum in Europe #2 Parliament in Exile. Afghan Women’s Resilience and the EU's Responsibility to Act

VIDCAST
"Bridges" is about bringing together different people on relevant questions on migration and asylum in Europe. With Nazifa Yusufi Bek, elected member of the Afghan parliament, and Hannah Neumann, member of European Parliament.
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Bridges - Encounters on Migration and Asylum in Europe #1 Forced to flee - but where to? Europe, Greece and those displaced from Afghanistan

VIDCAST
"Bridges" is a about bringing together different people on relevant questions on migration and asylum in Europe.  With Parwana Amiri, Human Rights Activist and Author and Stelios Kouloglou, Member of European Parliament and of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes Campaign: Stereotypes from the cradle

VIDEO
With an eye on gender democracy, Gender Alliance Initiative and the Heinrich Böll Foundation's Thessaloniki Office in Greece return with a series of dramatized stories and educational videos aiming at critically reflecting upon gender stereotypes while  promoting gender equality.
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Green Room #2 Interview with the Greek Ombudsman on his latest report on alleged pushbacks

VIDCAST
Our regional head of migration programme, Neda Noraie-Kia, talked to the Greek Ombudsman, Mr. Andreas I. Pottakis, about his latest report on alleged pushbacks to Turkey of foreign nationals who had arrived in Greece in search for international protection.

Green Room #1 | Greek-Turkish relations and the restart of exploratory talks

VIDCAST
An interview by Michalis Goudis, Head of Heinrich Böll Stiftung Office Thessaloniki, with the Political Scientist and International Relations Expert, Theodoros Tsikas. Green Room #1
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Gender will tear us apart again - Gender-based inequality and employment in Greece

ONLINE DISCUSSION
The recent publication of the Gender Equality Index 2020 Report by the European Institute of Gender Equality-EIGE) has placed Greece in the last position in the EU with regard to gender equality based on the composite index constructed and followed up on a yearly basis.

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Gender at the Local Level

Gender at the Local Level

Click on the image and listen to the participants and the collaborating organisations talking on their experience (in Greek). We hope that this experience will inspire similar actions in other regions of Greece, a journey of coming together, connection, empowerment and planning actions using equality, acceptance and inclusion as a compass.
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Retrieved: Short Trailer

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Retrieved - Full Trailer

PODCAST
What does feminist foreign policy mean and how does it differ from the traditional one? What are its particular features? What is the need to move towards such a new policy model? Listen to the trailer of the series.
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Retrieved 1: Why feminist foreign policy?

PODCAST
What is a feminist foreign policy? Does it just concern women? Or is it a new, more radical approach to foreign policy? In the 1st episode of the series we talk with Berlin-based Nina Bernarding, CEO and co-founder of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy.
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Retrieved 2: Gender in Arms Trade & Defence

PODCAST
How does conflict impact women and vulnerable social groups? Are their needs being taken into account in defence policy and in arms trade? In the 2nd episode of the series we talk with Merle Spellerberg from Bundestag and Renata Hessmann Dalaqua from UNIDIR.
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Retrieved 3: Gender and Migration Policy

PODCAST
What would we see if we looked at migration through the gender lens? How does the experience of displacement differ for women and vulnerable social groups? In the 3rd episode, we speak with Neda Noraie-Kia, Head of European Migration Policy at the Thessaloniki Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
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Retrieved 5: Gender & Peace-Building

PODCAST
In the last episode of the series, activist, academic, and NGO leader Maria Hadjipavlou talks us through the important work she has done for the divided communities in Cyprus. She also shines a light on how a feminist approach to conflict resolution could help create a better chance for longer lasting peace.
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Smugglers or scapegoats?

PODCAST
Could the creation of legal and safe pathways for people on the move be the answer to migrant smuggling and subsequently the criminalisation of migration? Who profits from the lack of them? Lydia Emmanouilidou, Natasha Dailiani, Ioanna Begiazi and Iasonas Apostolopoulos discuss. 
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Is the Big Brother a saviour or a perpetrator?

PODCAST
Radio Frequency Analysers, thermal cameras, drones: Can technology and artificial intelligence contribute to severe human rights violations? Florian Schmitz welcomes Wael Qarssifi, Petra Molnar, Giorgos Christides and Drew Mitnick for an in-depth analysis of the topic. 
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EU’s Green New Deal after COVID 19 Pandemic: Concerns and Revelations

ONLINE DISCUSSION
An online conference on the European Green Deal after the COVID19 pandemic with a focus at the local level, with a panel of speakers from academia, the civil society and local authorities.

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