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3 Questions on the COP30 outcome to MEP Bas Eickhout

Published: 2 December 2025
3 Questions
The COP30 in Belém unfolded against rising geopolitical tensions, intensifying climate impacts, and deepening divides between high-ambition countries and major fossil-fuel producers. In light of the absence of the US administration and the final outcome that is weakened on key issues such as the fossil fuel phase-out, we asked MEP Bas Eickhout, Co-Chair of the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament and member of the EP delegation to the COP30 UN Climate Summit, how he assesses the Belém Package and what role he sees for the European Union in future climate diplomacy.
Louise Mollenhauer, Neele Amalie Hartel, Bas Eickhout
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3 Questions on the new EU LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy to Rémy Bonny

Published: 8 October 2025
3 Questions
The European Commission’s new LGBTIQ+ Equality strategy for 2026-2030 puts equality back on the agenda – but for Rémy Bonny, Executive Director at Forbidden Colours, it comes too little, too late. As Europe faces a coordinated anti-gender movement importing authoritarian narratives into the EU, he warns that “a few nice words won’t stop that.” Joan Lanfranco asked him where the EU needs to show real political courage, how it can counter disinformation and violence, and why defending LGBTIQ+ rights has become a test of Europe’s democracy itself.
Joan Lanfranco, Rémy Bonny
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The RePlaybook: A Field Guide to the Climate and Information Crisis

Published: 22 September 2025
Book
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.
Tactical Tech

Building resilience against hybrid threats in the era of authoritarian technology

Published: 19 September 2025
Analysis
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.
Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra
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Climate disinformation media fellowship 2025

Published: 28 July 2025
Fellowship
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.
Zora Siebert (on parental leave)

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Platforms' policies on climate change misinformation

Platforms' policies on climate change misinformation (2025 update)

Published: 18 July 2025
Factsheet
The Digital Services Act (DSA) is now in force, but climate disinformation is not explicitly recognised as a “systemic risk”. With this regulatory gap in mind, we set out to examine how platform responses to climate disinformation evolved or failed to evolve between 2023 and 2025, and what their policies look like in practice.
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Spreading propaganda and disinformation using public funds

Published: 15 July 2021
E-paper
This e-paper examines systemic failures in curbing the funding of hateful content as well as disinformation and misinformation with the public money of Slovenian taxpayers. At the same time, it describes the very effective yet opaque methods of circumventing the co-regulative measures proposed by the EU Digital Services Act, which tries to curb such practices.




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Uncovering climate disinformation

Dossier: Uncovering climate disinformation

Published: 29 April 2024
Dossier
Uncover the battle against one of our era's greatest challenges – climate change. This dossier unravels the web of falsehoods obstructing climate action initiatives, and delves into the work of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung's Climate Disinformation Media Fellows. We expose the pervasive myths and misinformation campaigns hindering our collective efforts to address the urgent climate crisis.
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC
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“Visions for a Digital Europe 2025” Online conference

Published: 12 October 2021
Online conference
How can we create a value-based European digital future that is innovative and internationally compatible at the same time? What influence can the EU have on the data-driven economy and digitised society through new legislative projects and further regulatory measures? These are some key questions debated at the online conference "Visions for a Digital Europe 2025", which took place on Wednesday 27 October 2021. An initiative of iRightsLab, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the German Research Institute for Public Administration and the German University of Administrative Sciences.
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Drowning in disinformation: how homegrown state-sponsored disinformation threatens EU democracy

Published: 7 June 2021
Dossier
Disinformation can potentially reach a vast audience, largely due to social networks’ recommendation algorithms. Discussions on disinformation in the EU often focus on external state actors such as Russia and China, or on conspiracy theorists and hate groups. Domestic sources of disinformation such as political parties and national governments, however, are often overlooked.  

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