The EU-Commis­sion has given in to pressure from Hungary and has removed the Russian Patriarch Kirill from the list of persons to be sanc­tioned in the draft Sixth package of restric­tive measures against Russia in response to the war in Ukraine. While this exem­pli­fies a disas­trous weakness towards Victor Orbán’s regime, it also under­scores a fatal under­es­ti­ma­tion of the role of the Russian-Orthodox Church within the power structure of Russia and in the campaign of destruc­tion against Ukraine. 

What happened in Srebrenica 27 years ago is now occurring in Bucha, Mariupol and other areas of Ukraine conquered by Russia. An essay by Marieluise Beck

We are living in times of rapid change: climate change, digi­tal­iza­tion, the COVID-19 pandemic, the looming systemic compe­ti­tion with China, global migration, and the realign­ment of glob­al­iza­tion are changing our...

After failing to agree on exclusive spheres of influence in Europe with the Trump admin­is­tra­tion, the Kremlin is chal­lenging Washington’s ability to keep unity among Euro-Atlantic allies and protect European...

Europe is suffering from high gas prices. At some gas hubs, they increased more than 250% since January, and already have impact on the retail prices for house­holds in many...

When Angela Merkel took office as German Chan­cellor in 2005, she was better prepared for the chal­lenges on the EU’s eastern border than any other West European head of government....

Digi­tal­iza­tion repre­sents one of the major chal­lenges of our time. Hence, it is crucial to obtain a profound under­standing of the digital trans­for­ma­tion in order to be able to design and steer it.

An answer to Wladimir Putin’s fine tuned op-ed in the German weekly Die Zeit by Ralf Fücks, Center for Liberal Modernity.

Since January 2021 there has been growing military esca­la­tion in conflict-affected areas of Donbas. Russia has built up military equipment deploy­ment along the Russian-Ukrainian border, repo­si­tioned its army and strengthened...

Lukas Daubner argues that the liberal forces of all stripes should once again take a positive view of the future.

Only temporarily, says Michael Zürn, Director at the Berlin Social Science Center. 

Liber­alism is a political persua­sion devoted to the pursuit of human flour­ishing. It demands that, at a minimum, every indi­vid­ual must be per­mit­ted to write its own life’s story, unob­structed by fear,...

Emotions play a huge role in populist politics. Liberals have largely overseen the impor­tance of emotions. Populists are able to use fear and other emotions against liberal democracy. But the answer...

Fly less! Eat less meat! In the struggle against climate change, there is one thing in partic­ular we should do: moderate our lifestyles. Indi­vidual respon­si­bility defi­nitely matters. Will renun­ci­a­tion and...

On this date 74 years ago, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau exter­mi­na­tion camp. The 27th of January became the Day of Remem­brance for the Victims of National Socialism. Much has...

Over the last 200 years, Liber­alism has been a stunning success story. It brought forward liberty and pros­perity for the many instead of priv­i­leges for the few. Yet, today liberal thinking and...

There can be no liberal modernity without social justice, which is why nothing can surpass the social demo­c­ratic idea, which has been margin­al­ized in the current SPD. Anyone, who is...

The rapid pace of moderni­sa­tion renders people suscep­tible to populism. In cosmopolitan milieus, this came as a surprise. Yet the warning signs had long been apparent.

About the motives for founding a Center for Liberal Modernity.