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Es braucht einen raschen Abschluss des EU - Mercosul-Abkommens

Artikel der MdBs Jürgen Hardt, Carsten Linnemann, Joachim Pfeifer und Johann Wadephul

Artikel der Bundestagsabgeordneten Jürgen Hardt, Carsten Linnemann, Joachim Pfeiffer und Johann Wadephul zur Notwendigkeit eines Abschluss des EU-Mercosur-Abkommens. Der Artikel ist im Original als Gastkommentar im Handelsblatt erschienen (https://www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/gastbeitraege/gastkommentar-es-braucht-einen-raschen-abschluss-des-eu-mercosur-abkommens/26273338.html?ticket=ST-680044-ayaCvRl1ydA04fehtA43-ap2) Eine portugiesische Übersetzung kann hier heruntergeladen werden.

October 22, 2020
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Framing Democracy : Tanzania

Media Coverage of Tanzania’s 2020 Presidential Elections: A focus on opposition candidate Tundu Lissu

With an unprecedented decline in press freedom since President John Pombe Magufuli took over in 2015, Tanzania has become a tragic case study. Shutdowns of newspapers and other media outlets and censorship are rampant. Some journalists have been purged or harassed for not toeing the line while many others simply left the profession.

October 21, 2020
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Hendrik Sittig: “There is a chance of serious conversation about how important media freedom is”

Translation of the interview with the Head of KAS Media Programme South East Europe, for the Bulgarian news portal „Dnevnik“, published on 21st of October 2020.

Hendrik Sittig has been heading the regional programme bureau, opened 13 years ago, of the Media Programme South East Europe of the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung or KAS) in difficult times for the media in Bulgaria and the countries throughout the region. Difficult times for Bulgarian democracy as well. Dnevnik is talking with him about the anniversary of German reunification, the activities of the Media Programme, deficits and clichés in the media environment, the European Commission’s rule of law report and good Bulgarian journalism.

October 21, 2020
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Perspektiven und Herausforderungen für die brasilianische Wirtschaft nach der Pandemie

Brasilianische Wirtschaft

Das Jahr 2020 wird wegen der Covid-19-Pandemie immer in Erinnerung bleiben, nicht nur in seiner gesundheitlichen Dimension, sondern auch wegen der Lähmung des produktiven Sektors und der daraus resultierenden Wirtschaftskrise. Die Lösung zur Milderung der Krise in ihrer gesundheitlichen Dimension wird bereits diskutiert, und das Problem der Wirtschaftskrise? Um mit möglichen Lösungen dazu beizutragen, das Szenario abzuschwächen oder sogar das gegenwärtige Panorama der brasilianischen Wirtschaft umzukehren, enthält diese Publikation acht Texte im Format eines Policy Papers. Zu den behandelten Themen gehören: Fragen zum makroökonomischen Szenario, zur internationalen Einbindung und zum Außenhandel Brasiliens, zur Bedeutung und Rolle des Energie- und Industriesektors sowie der Finanzen auf subnationaler Ebene. Die Autoren, mit Erfahrung in den verschiedenen Themen und Bereichen der Wirtschaft, haben Analysen zu den aktuellen Faktoren und Maßnahmen erstellt, die die brasilianische Wirtschaft bei der Überwindung des gegenwärtigen kritischen Moments unterstützen können.

October 21, 2020
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KAS Brasilien

Politica por inteiro

Tracking and Analysis of Brazilian environmental and climate policy

In face of the complex system of decisions, changes and actions that the Brazilian environmental policy is currently inserted, it is with great satisfaction that the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Brazil announces its support for the "Política por Inteiro" project. "Política por Inteiro" aims to provide a reliable, recurring and comparable data base on public policy signals and propositions in the environmental area in a "friendly" format and with credible data, and that creates a common "memory" about national decisions. Through the monitoring of government actions and rhetoric, systematic analysis of the situation and associated risks and the production and dissemination of information, it is intended to provide a tool to identify signals, interpret trends and consolidate them in an aggregate manner, using data science to inform citizens, advocacy networks and decision makers themselves. Each month an outlook is produced with the signals detected in the monitoring and monthly online events are also carried out to analyze the situation. The September outlook is available at the following link and the event about it is available on the "Política por Inteiro" YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/politicaporinteiro) - as well as the next ones to be held. For more information and full access to the monitoring platform, visit the project website: https://www.politicaporinteiro.org/

October 21, 2020
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Security and Defence Policy: Time to Deliver

Fostering Europe’s Strategic Autonomy

In an increasingly competitive and uncertain international context, Europe cannot indefinitely outsource its security. Europeans should be able to carry out a larger range of tasks on their own, while working with the US and other allies and partners whenever possible. Cooperation at EU level is not the only way to strengthen Europe’s assets and resolve in security and defence matters, but it can and should play a bigger and decisive role. To be a more effective security provider and a viable partner, Europe needs to become more strategic and more autonomous. Advancing strategic autonomy in this domain is an uphill struggle. European countries have different strategic cultures and major shortfalls in military capabilities. Strengthening solidarity within the EU and delivering tangible assets to cope with a wide range of threats are the twin tracks for progress towards a more strategic and autonomous Europe. This paper argues that the EU should brace, empower and engage. Bracing entails developing a common strategic culture and building up Europe’s resilience against old and new challenges. Europeans need to define what they want to be able to do together, through which capabilities and to counter which threats. Empowering requires enhancing cooperation to deliver the capabilities that Europeans need to carry out more demanding military tasks, and to achieve the operational capacity to do so. Improving coherence between the instruments for defence cooperation recently established at EU level, and a stronger engagement from member states, will be critical to make concrete progress.

October 21, 2020
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SPECIAL EDITION: NEW ZEALAND - General Elections

by Beatrice Gorawantschy, Eva Wagner

A potpourri of current affairs topics from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific brought to you by KAS Australia and the Pacific. The weekly digital snapshot showcases selected media and think tank articles to provide a panorama view and analysis of the debate in these countries.

October 21, 2020
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The Early Bird

How a Woman-led Enterprise is Steering a New Commodity in Myanmar

The third installment of our series on women entrepreneurs, features Marlar, a business woman from Myanmar and her experience on how digitalization and mentoring have helped transform her and her business. This feature is part of a series on women-owned SMEs (WSMEs) in four Southeast Asian countries, focused on how digitalization presents new opportunities for women-owned businesses and how it could help them overcome their gender specific challenges. KAS and Woomentum believe that empowered women in business who are equipped with digitalization and innovation capabilities are able to build more sustainable and profitable businesses, empower other women and communities, and stimulate greater social and digital economic growth.

October 21, 2020
Interviews

6th #AfricaBlogging annual conference takes place online

African political bloggers met virtually for their sixth annual conference in October.

Participants, from 12 English- and French-speaking countries discussed topics such as Cameroon’s political situation and deliberated on the importance of blogging amid shrinking democratic spaces.

October 20, 2020
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KAS/Pavlo Kaliuk

Zwischen Solidarität und Vorsicht

Ukrainische Reaktionen auf die Krise in Belarus

Die politischen Entwicklungen der letzten Wochen in Belarus werden in der Ukraine sehr aufmerksam verfolgt. Vielfach lösen die aktuellen Massenproteste in Minsk und anderen belarussischen Städten Erinnerungen an die Proteste in der Ukraine zur Jahreswende 2013/2014 aus, die dann in der Revolution der Würde (Euromaidan) mündeten. Allerdings unterscheiden sich die ukrainischen Reaktionen in Politik und Zivilgesellschaft im Grad ihrer Deutlichkeit.

Tim B. Peters, Brigitta Triebel, Vasyl Mykhailyshyn, Daria Dmytrenko
October 20, 2020
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Selected contributions to the series with international relevance

The series informs in a concentrated form about important positions of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung on current topics. The individual issues present key findings and recommendations, offer brief analyses, explain the Foundation's further plans and name KAS contact persons.

 

International Reports

Journal for international issues, foreign policy and development cooperation

International Reports (IR) is the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung's periodical on international politics. It offers political analyses by our experts in Berlin and from more than 100 offices across all regions of the world. Contributions by named authors do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editorial team.

EPP Party Barometer

The Situation of the European People's Party in the EU

The EPP Party Barometer illustrates the current situation of the EPP party family in the EU. On a non-regular basis, it provides a concise overview of current election results, polls from the member states and the composition of the party family.

Interviews

In our series "Interviews", talks and discussions are held with experts from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V. on various topics.

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Concise, reduced to the essentials, but always highly topical. In our series "kurzum", our experts summarise an issue or problem on a maximum of two pages.

Country Reports

Short political reports of the KAS offices abroad

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung is a political foundation. Our offices abroad are in charge of over 200 projects in more than 120 countries. The country reports offer current analyses, exclusive evaluations, background information and forecasts - provided by our international staff.

Event Reports

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, its educational institutions, centres and foreign offices, offer several thousand events on various subjects each year. We provide up to date and exclusive reports on selected conferences, events and symposia at www.kas.de. In addition to a summary of the contents, you can also find additional material such as pictures, speeches, videos or audio clips.