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The study aims to provide a fact-based, transparent framework for assessing which areas of the EU’s trade, investment and broader economic relationship with China are benign.

On September 7 2020, Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan, joined an online conversation hosted by Open Society Foundations, King Baudouin Foundation, European Movement International and Bertelsmann Stiftung. She discussed the digital innovations Taiwan had implemented...

In 2011, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Bertelsmann Stiftung launched the model project, “Kein Kind zurücklassen! Kommunen in NRW beugen vor” (“Leave no child behind! Municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia providing equal opportunities for all...

The Globalization Report 2020 shows that advancing globalization has increased material prosperity at the macroeconomic level, in particular in industrialized countries, between 1990 and 2018.

Turnaround in public opinion: populist attitudes have become much less pronounced and widespread, above all in the political center. As populism declines, populists have been put on the defensive. At the same time, further radicalization on the right is becoming a more...

This report is published as part of the Automating Society project, a cooperation between the Bertelsmann Stiftung and AlgorithmWatch. This “preview report” is fully dedicated to an initial mapping and exploration of ADM systems deployed throughout Europe as a consequence of...

The coronavirus pandemic is only one of the myriad of challenges the EU is facing. Especially in this potentially-transformative crisis, it is important to focus European expenditure and politics where they can provide the most benefit to European citizens. The concept of...

This paper presents the key findings of our 2020 globalization survey, which covers a set of 15 emerging markets and developed economies. It was conducted from late February to mid-March 2020. As the results pre-date any changes in attitudes arising from the coronavirus...

The empirical study at hand, authored by Tanja Betz from the Gutenberg University Mainz and her team, provides insights into the actors’ varying viewpoints and experiences regarding different types of contact between parents and teachers. The aim is particularly to...

European thought traditionally imagines Central Asia as a remote and disconnected “hinterland”. It is no less of a cliché, but it would be more useful to think of the region as a Eurasian core, as the geographical centrality of the region and competition between great powers...