🌿🌎🇷🇴🇺🇦Very happy to team up the amazing team at Social Innovation Solution, and my friend Ciprian Stanescu to push forward the learnings on the hashtag#SustainableReconstruction of hashtag#UkrainianCities with Iryna Stavchuk from the European Climate Foundation. A conversation we started at the hashtag#URC2025 in Rome, continued at the Climate Change Summit in Bucharest and...

#BlackSea is a strategic priority for the #EuropeanUnion and its key partners across the #WiderEurope. Turning #strategicthinking into #action and #localimpact is what we do best in #GMF. So proud to be part of this wonderful journey to stregthen #regionalcooperation in the #BlackSeaRegion on both sides of the Atlantic. Hosted at the Romanian Permanent Representation to the EU, by HE Iulia...

#LocalDemocracy is one of the key drivers of societal resilience across hashtag#WiderEurope. Looking at the #localelections in #Georgia we are reminded that #localcommunities have the strength and determination to keep fighting for empowerement and representation and will be the determinant force of their countries democratic and European future. It’s a permanent struggle thou, against...

Talking about the Moldovan elections, its European future and the hybrid threats for all our societies in multiple news outlets, with insights from almost three years of work on the ground alongside my amazing GMF friends and colleagues – for who wants to binge: DW (Germany in English) here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pA5BnXycfsc France24 (France in English) here:...

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, brought together 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧, Director for Peace, Partnerships and...

Republica Moldova are șanse reale să adere la Uniunea Europeană până în 2028-2029, consideră experta Clara Volintiru, implicată de-a lungul timpului în programe operaționale și consultanță în România. „Ce văd în Republica Moldova, vorbind cu întregul arc administrativ, este o voință acerbă de a parcurge cât mai bine și cât mai repede aceste etape de negociere și...

Interview with the director of the Black Sea Trust German Marshall Fund, Clara Volintiru, on RLIVE...

Summary The activities of civil society and local stakeholder engagement in Ukraine’s communities have been decisive in ensuring societal resilience and the positive impact of international assistance in the country. In the context of overlapping crises—including the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s full-scale invasion, economic recession, outward migration, and internal displacement—local...

Unul dintre cele mai așteptate momente ale RBL Summit 2025, panelul „Reconstruirea încrederii”, a adus pe scenă personalități remarcabile care au împărtășit din propria experiență cum au reușit să câștige încrederea instituțiilor, comunităților și a oamenilor cu care lucrează. Marius Ștefan, membru board RBL & CEO Autonom, a evidențiat că educația și...

As the war in Ukraine has been unfolding on the battlefield, the Black Sea region has been assaulted with much cheaper instruments of destabilisation from Russia. Information and voter manipulation in key elections is an effective way to control a country’s geopolitical and economic policies. My latest on the regional threats and challenges in...