Adenauer Journalism Scholarship

The KAS Media Programme South East Europe starts a new call for its scholarship programme for journalism Bachelor (B.A.) students. And for Master (M.A.) students of all majors with а parallel proven engagement at a media outlet. The scholars will receive a monthly grant. The Adenauer Journalism Scholarship is intended for students enrolled at universities in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Conflict Weekly #174, 4 May 2023, Vol.4, No.18

An initiative by NIAS-IPRI and India Office of the KAS

Another ceasefire in Sudan, and a Counteroffensive in Ukraine SPECIAL COMMENTARY The State of Conflict in Myanmar: Violence, Counter-Violence, and the Current Impasse

SOUTH AFRICA, COALITION AHEAD!

Authors: Kira Alberts & Sonia Twongyeirwe

Since its first democratic elections in 1994, South Africa has never had to contend with coalition governance at the national level. Until now.

Clear shift to the right in Chile's constitutional council election

Another setback for the government of Gabriel Boric

Last Sunday, Chileans were once again called to the polls. Fifty representatives of the people were elected, who will spend the next five months revising the draft constitution prepared in advance by the commission of experts and then vote on it.

Mexico Update 2023

Election campaign temperature rises, political debate comes to a head

One year before the 2024 presidential elections, campaign fever is rising dramatically in Mexico, while at the same time democratic institutions and the rule of law are coming under increasing pressure. At the centre of the political discussion in the country is the question of the succession to the incumbent Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who continues to be very popular with the people, and the potential candidates from his party MORENA as well as from the opposition and the positioning associated with them. In the process, political polarisation continues to increase and the democratic rules and principles of democracy are increasingly being undermined or openly disregarded.

Nostalgia for the Kremlin reigns in South Africa

The South African government has lost its way in its Putin-friendly policy. What if the Kremlin leader, who is the subject of an international arrest warrant, visits South Africa as part of a BRICS summit?

State of Energy Morocco 2022

The State of Energy in Morocco 2022 report provides a comprehensive overview of Morocco's energy landscape. The report highlights the country's high dependence on energy imports, the challenges related to natural gas imports, and the efforts to increase renewable energy capacity. The report offers valuable insights into Morocco's energy situation and the measures being taken to achieve energy independence by 2030.

Canada-Germany Resource Security: Navigating in a Changing World Order

Our approach to this report included an environmental scan of current media related to the Canada-Germany relationship and energy landscape, a review of relevant public opinion research, and insight from in-depth interviews with policy and sector experts in Canada and Germany.

Job Announcement

Position: Driver/ Technical assistant

The Hanoi Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation is currently looking for a Driver/ Technical Assistant. We, a German Political Foundation, have been present in Vietnam for 30 years and are partner to over 10 prestigious Vietnamese organizations, institutes, universities, government and legislative bodies and other political stakeholders. We are engaged in judicial reform, economic development, foreign and security affairs.

Government formations in Bosnia and Herzegovina through new coalitions

New parties taking responsibilty in the government

208 days after the elections on October 2, 2022, the governments in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are in office at the state level and in the entities Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) and Republika Srpska (RS). While the process of forming a government in the state as a whole and in the RS ran smoothly, the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Christian Schmidt had to make use of the so-called "Bonn Powers" again, after using them for the electoral law change on election night, to break the blockade in the appointment of the Prime Minister of the FBiH and end his government.

On October 02, 2022, the voters elected the three-member state presidency, a chamber of the state parliament (House of Representatives), the president and the national assembly of the entity Republika Srpska and the second chamber of the entity parliament as well as the assemblies of the ten cantons in the entity FBiH and in the self-governing district of Brčko. From now on Denis Bećirović (SDP), Željko Komšić (DF) and Željka Cvijanović (SNSD) form the state presidency. Bećirović and Cvijanović were elected to the state presidency for the first time. The formation and election of the members of the second chamber (House of Nations) of the parliament of the FBiH took place only after the elections by the parliaments of the 10 cantons. This is what the electoral law change implemented by the High Representative referred to. The Central Election Commission (CIK) provides a detailed overview of all election results on the Internet.