Ralf Fücks is the founder of the new think tank Zentrum Liberale Moderne and former co-president of Heinrich Böll Stiftung, the German Green political foundation.
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A shared republican understanding of democracy could offer a way out from the dead ends of ethnic nationalism and identity politics.
Read moreA discussion with Ralf Fücks, outgoing president of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, on the situation in Germany, coalitions with Merkel and the rise of the AfD.
Read moreThere is no shortage of material with which to criticise American policy. But what exactly is the aim of this criticism – decoupling from America, or the renewal of the West?
Read moreAn interview with Ralf Fücks, Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Read moreWe should not forget what exactly provoked the mass protests that eventually led to the fall of the old regime in Kiev: it was the then President Yanukovych’s sudden decision not to sign the Association Agreement with the EU. Ten years after the ‘Orange revolution’, the dramatic change of events in February 2014 have given Ukraine and Europe a second chance.
Read moreThe decisive question for the coming decades is not ‘if’ but ‘how’ the global economy will grow. We are currently in the middle of a green revolution in which millions are already participating. To advance, however, we need effective environmental policy at national and international levels. And above all, we need a European Green New Deal.
Read moreA relationship with, not against, nature should be one of the core principles of ‘green growth’.
Read moreThe debate of growth versus degrowth misses a crucial point: while there are limits to further growth, we can find ways to move these limits.
Read moreThe ecologist Reinhard Loske wants to get away from the dogma of growth. Ralf Fücks, CEO of the Heinrich-Böll Foundation, favours green growth and a bio-economy. An interview.
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