#Debates­ Continued

With Debates Digital: Text & Talks, we focus on current societal challenges and political developments in a series of essays and online conversations, which have been published over the past half year. This autumn, we revisited the Debates Digital cities of Belfast and Minsk to revaluate the situation and also shone a spotlight on the continuing protests in Sofia and on-going tensions in Kyiv.

We are now preparing our next Debate on Europe, which will lead us back to where it all started, namely Budapest, the host city of our first two Debates on Europe in 2012 and 2013. We will examine what has changed over the past years and how the political landscape in the country is impacting academic freedom and other facets of life.

In the meanwhile, we invite you to browse through our past talks, including Angelina Kariakina’s fascinating take on Ukraine: As diplomatic efforts prove ineffective, more and more Ukrainians consider a fully-fledged war to be an effective way out of the stalemate. In a deeply polarized country, peace plans have little prospect of success.

What is Debates on Europe?

Since its inception in 2012, the series Debates on Europe has been hosted in places where the idea of Europe is at stake. In international discussion forums organized in cooperation with local actors – mainly in eastern and south-eastern Europe – it addresses the most pressing issues on the European agenda. By supporting civil society in places where this is still emerging or under pressure it furthers free and open debate on cultural, social and political issues.