Democracy

Climate policy demands long-term vision, backed by action. The EU is at risk of under-delivering. Read our Böll EU Newsletter 9/2025 and check out our new content and upcoming events.

Dickon Bonvik-Stone, Rose Wanjiku, Dr. M Jackson, Roni Zahavi-Brunner and Nina Tea Zibetti are our 2025 Climate Disinformation Media Fellows! They will pursue on-the-ground reporting on climate disinformation case studies. Their articles will be published on our web dossier on Uncovering climate disinformation.

Is Europe ready for the era of hybrid warfare? To defend against hybrid attacks, we must urgently build civil preparedness and societal resilience. When updating security assets, we must not only invest in hardware and software but also in 'wetware'.

This collaborative guide by TacticalTech, supported by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung EU | Global Dialogue, looks at a digital information landscape that is fast becoming a toxic wasteland. The RePlaybook gathers insights from 30 organisations and practitioners at the forefront of the response. It combines thought leadership and practical approaches. It equips communicators, campaigners, journalists, and researchers with fresh tools for navigating complexity and strengthening climate discourse in an age of cultural divides and contested truth.

Hybrid threats, rooted in authoritarian uses of technology, cause everyday harm. Collective resilience requires dismantling their ecosystems through reconceptualising these threats, comprehensive countermeasures, and cross-regional cooperation. Europe and Asia already cooperate on cyber defence but must go further to disincentivise authoritarian practices directly.

Europe and Canada can only protect their digital ecosystems against US interference if they start investing in tech sovereignty now.

In November 2024, the collapse of a railway station canopy in Novi Sad killed 16 people and sparked the largest student-led protests in Serbia's modern history. Initial grief gave way to a decentralised movement that is demanding accountability, far-reaching reforms and new elections, despite brutal repression by the regime. The protests have exposed the failure of 'stabilitocracy' and brought Serbia's democratic future — and the EU's role in it — to the forefront of political debate.

Dire headlines followed the EU-US trade deal – but this is not Europe’s death, it’s a test. Europe still has strengths, but must use this moment to reform and adapt. Read more in our Böll EU 8/2025 Newsletter.

This month, we’re highlighting some of our key articles and publications from the past few months – perfect for your summer reading list.

For the third time, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue, in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, DC, is looking for a select number of journalists reporting on climate disinformation. Apply now if you have research ideas on the threat of growing climate denialism, the relation between big tech and climate obstruction, the climate counter-disinformation community or similar topics. The application deadline is Tuesday 9 September 2025, 23:59 CEST.