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George Soros: Open Society, the Financial Crisis, and the Way Ahead
October 2009
 VIDEO  
Open Society Institute founder and chairman George Soros shares his latest thinking on economics and politics in a lecture series based on a lifetime of practical and philosophical reflection.

 

Continued Segregation in Czech Schools Devastates Lives of Roma Children
Press Release
November 11, 2009
The Czech Republic can set a much-needed example for the rest of Europe by following through on its commitment to integrate its educational system, said the Open Society Justice Initiative today.

EU-AU Relations: What Role for Civil Society?
April 2009
OSI-Brussels senior policy officer Carmen Silvestre offers an analysis of the Joint EU-Africa Strategy, the EU-Africa Human Rights Dialogue, and opportunities for civil society engagement.

more from OSI-Brussels

 

Muslims in Europe: A Report on 11 EU Cities
December 2009
This Open Society Institute publication presents an overview of the experiences of Muslim communities in select neighborhoods in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Antwerp, Berlin and Hamburg, Copenhagen, Leicester and Waltham Forest–London, Marseille and Paris, and Stockholm.

Call for Proposals: Equality and Justice Under the Rule of Law
December 16, 2009
The International Women's Program of the Open Society Institute invites proposals from organizations working in Nepal, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Colombia, Guatemala, Iraq, or the occupied Palestinian Territories.

Muslims Face Alarming Discrimination in Europe, Says Report
Press Release
December 15, 2009
Effective and sustainable measures are urgently needed at the city, national and EU levels to tackle religious discrimination, according to a report released today by the Open Society Institute’s At Home in Europe Project.

Call for Applications: Academic Fellowship Program
December 15, 2009
The Open Society Institute offers support to talented scholars to work at progressive universities in Southeastern Europe, parts of the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia.

more Europe news & announcements

 

Europe's Muslim Communities
Brussels
December 16, 2009
The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and the Open Society Institute-Brussels present a double launch event for two publications addressing the topic of Muslims in Europe.

Democracy in Belgium
OSI-Brussels
December 11, 2009
Koert Debeuf—author, advisor to several Belgian ministers and a prime minister, veteran of the Flemish and federal parliaments, and current head of cabinet of Guy Verhofstadt in the European Parliament—speaks at the Open Society Institute-Brussels about how Belgian politics works.

Fire + Fire: The Sounds and Stories of Two Cultures Bound by Rhythm and Race
New York City
November 19, 2009
This event explores the parallels between Roma and African American experience through a fusion of spoken word, movement, and music.

more Europe events

 

Fall of the Berlin Wall: Seeking Paradise, Finding Europe
Slavenka Drakulic
November 5, 2009
Croatian author and journalist Slavenka Drakulic reflects on how communism’s collapse has brought more choices for toothpaste as well as a slower, more difficult change in consciousness.

Fall of the Berlin Wall: Freedom Rises and Spreads After the Fall
Vaclav Havel
November 5, 2009
Vaclav Havel reflects on civil society in Eastern Europe and the Open Society Institute's contribution to democratic change in the region.

Fall of the Berlin Wall: Days of Dissent and Dreams of Democracy
Chuck Sudetic
November 5, 2009
Open Society Institute senior writer Chuck Sudetic tells of the life and times of Annette Laborey, executive director of OSI-Paris, who in the 1980s helped dissidents behind the Iron Curtain survive and triumph.

more Europe publications & articles

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