One year after Ukraine was granted EU candidate status, we invited high-ranking repre­sen­ta­tives of the EU and Germany as well as experts from leading European think tanks to take stock of devel­op­ments so far. The discus­sion in Berlin on 18/​19 September also looked at the prospects for 2024 and tried to identify necessary reforms.

Ecology and freedom: how can we reconcile the two? What does a liberal climate policy look like and what funda­mental questions will it have to answer? We will discuss these questions at our confer­ence “Ecology & Freedom” on 29 November in Berlin. Among others with: Robert Habeck, Ursula Weiden­feld, Claus Leggewie, Michael Zürn, Ralf Fücks, Lukas Köhler, Andreas Jung and many others. 

Our major inter­na­tional confer­ence “Ukraine and Us” in the Repre­sen­ta­tion of the State of Hesse in Berlin generated a great deal of interest. More than 30 invited experts discussed the question “What does Russian aggres­sion mean for Europe” in 7 panels in front of an audience of more than 160 people.

The EU wants to promote the rule of law in Ukraine, but what external measures are needed to achieve this and what are the Ukrainian realities? This is analyzed by Maryna Rabi­novych in the LibMod policy paper.

“Rethinking Russia”: On 31 October, we opened our new project “Expert Network Russia” with a confer­ence in Vilnius. Here is a selection of photographs from the event.

In our discus­sion series, we take a look at some key countries: What is going on in France, the USA, Poland and Hungary, in Israel and the European Union? How can the devel­op­ments in these countries be explained? What is trans­fer­able to Germany, what is different here and why? And what paths can be found out of the multiple crises?