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| The strengths and limits of a globalized world
In the mid-1990s it looked like the United States was going to be globalization's big winner. Yet Klaus- Peter Siegloch, correspondent for German television broadcaster ZDF and a member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Board of Trustees, says the country has begun having ... | 03/03/2010 |
| Balearic government honors Liz and Reinhard Mohn for cultural engagement
The government of the Balearic Islands has recognized Liz and Reinhard Mohn for their commitment to promoting culture. On March 1, 2010, Liz Mohn accepted the Gold Medal of the Balearic Islands from Francesc Antich i Oliver, president of the islands, before an ... | 01/03/2010 |
| From Theory to Praxis: Realigning the EU's growth and sustainability strategy
On February 23rd, the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the World Future Council (WFC) jointly held the last out of a set of three debates in the European Parliament dealing with the issue of "Rethinking Well-being. How to keep Europe on the Sustainability Track." The panel ... | 25/02/2010 |
| Three proposals for a new and more effective Lisbon strategy
The EU's Lisbon Agenda is now a thing of the past. At its summit tomorrow, Europe's heads of state and government will discuss the Union's new long-term growth strategy. A higher level of commitment will be required if it is to prove more successful than the ... | 10/02/2010 |
| Financial Crisis: Lithuania Looks to High-Tech
Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius concluded on 5 February 2010 a five-day visit to the United States by speaking to a select gathering of World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), corporate and media representatives at the Bertelsmann Foundation North ... | 08/02/2010 |
| Study: Trust in Germany's social market economy increases
The trust Germans place in the country's social market economy has risen once again. A study carried out by the Allensbach research institute on behalf of the Bertelsmann Stiftung reveals a reversal in the trend toward lower levels of trust, a decline that has been ... | 08/02/2010 |
| How to capture and assess well-being in a changing world
On February 3rd, the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the World Future Council (WFC) jointly held the second out of a set of three debates in the European Parliament dealing with the issue of "Rethinking Well-being. How to keep Europe on the Sustainability Track." The panel ... | 05/02/2010 |
| The Black Sea Region will decide the future of the EU
On 25 January 80 experts and political decision-makers came to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin at the invitation of the "Commission on the Black Sea" in order to talk about the current state of relations in the Black Sea area and the future prospects of this ... | 04/02/2010 |
| This is not a better world. We have no place to take refuge.
Liz Mohn is a woman with an enormous amount of energy, which she cultivates through discipline -- a trait she shared with her late husband, Reinhard Mohn, founder of Bertelsmann, one of the world's most successful media groups. He passed away in October 2009, and she ... | 28/01/2010 |
| Wanted: Progress toward a peaceful neighborhood
The meeting that took place in 1995 was an ambitious one: At the invitation of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, parties to the Middle East's various conflicts sat down together to map out a peaceful future for the region and to develop a strategy for creating a ... | 19/01/2010 |
| Striving for a Living Economy
On January 13th, the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the World Future Council (WFC) jointly organised the first of a set of three panel debates in the European Parliament under the common heading "Rethinking Well-being. How to keep Europe on the Sustainability Track." The ... | 15/01/2010 |
| Brussels think tanks join forces to debate 'the State of the Union'
On Tuesday, January 12, nine leading Brussels think tanks, in cooperation with Agence Europe, held the first annual Forum to debate the European Union's politico-strategic agenda for the coming year. This is the first time the Brussels think tanks have collaborated to ... | 13/01/2010 |
| America's religiosity unique among industrialized countries
People are more religious in the United States than in any other industrialized country according to an international poll by the Bertelsmann Stiftung. The survey found 89 percent of Americans are religious, and 62 percent are highly religious. At the same time, ... | 15/12/2009 |
| Former Foreign Ministers call for strengthening long-term international effort in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The following is a statement signed by 20 former Foreign Ministers who recently convened in Washington, DC under the auspices of the Aspen Atlantic Group in partnership with the Bertelsmann Foundation. | 10/12/2009 |
| Bertelsmann Foundation awarded European Commission grant for Capitol Hill-European Parliament staffer exchange
The Bertelsmann Foundation has received a two-year 180,000 EUR grant from the European Commission to establish the Congressional-European Parliament Initiative (CEPI). This project, administered with the Brussels office of the Germany-based Bertelsmann Stiftung, is ... | 08/12/2009 |
| Forget Copenhagen!
Attendees of the climate summit that begins in Copenhagen on December 7, 2009, will be trying to negotiate a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol. Yet it's already clear that prospects for achieving a meaningful outcome are virtually non-existent. <BR> | 03/12/2009 |
| Muslims are tolerant of other religions
On the one hand, Muslims living in Germany are very religious, on the other hand, they are much more tolerant than their non-Muslim neighbors might think. In light of the recent ban on minarets in Switzerland, the Bertelsmann Stiftung presents here findings from its ... | 02/12/2009 |
| Afghanistan's political and economic situation is also a disaster
Like the difficult military situation, current political and economic conditions in Afghanistan are also disastrous. The country's leaders cannot improve conditions there on their own, while trends in neighboring states are equally troubling. Those are the conclusions ... | 01/12/2009 |
| The EU will now also have a foreign policy
The Lisbon Treaty comes into effect today, something that will have no small impact on Europe's foreign policy. This already became apparent immediately before the treaty came into power when Russian President Dmitri Medvedev approached NATO and the European Union ... | 01/12/2009 |
| Swiss vote reveals: Democracy needs common values that apply to all
"The people have spoken and the minority must now fall in line." That comment was recently posted on the "Zeit online" Internet site by a supporter of the ban on minarets for mosques, just approved by popular vote in Switzerland. The blogger was undoubtedly speaking ... | 30/11/2009 |
| All over the world, the quality of democratic governance is declining
Although the number of formal democracies remains constant worldwide, in many cases their quality is showing a significant decline. This has had an adverse effect on core aspects of political participation, including elections as well as freedom of assembly and the ... | 29/11/2009 |
| What will Lisbon change exactly?
Just one week after Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed off on the Lisbon Treaty and its reforms, the Bertelsmann Stiftung organized a panel discussion together with the Hanns Seidel Foundation on implementing the treaty's new provisions. Held on November 11, 2009, in ... | 23/11/2009 |
| The downfall of a cynic
While I was searching for the group of German and Israeli "Young Leaders" at the airport in Munich, I don't quite know what I was expecting. We were told by the organizers that we were "chosen" for an Israeli-German dialogue, which entailed spending one week together ... | 18/11/2009 |
| The future of better regulation in the EU
At the 2009 International Regulatory Reform Conference in Stockholm, over 400 attendees from around the globe spent two days exchanging views on better regulation, with "The future of better regulation in the European Union" serving as the topic of the event's final ... | 13/11/2009 |
| No master of ceremonies leading the EU
When participants at the special EU summit this coming Thursday decide on who will fill Europe's new top positions, the discussion will mostly be about recognizable names and well-known personalities. What is much more important, however, is how the new leaders view ... | 12/11/2009 |
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