Traditional Holiday Breakfast / XI New York Global Forum on December 8, 2022
New York, USA Speaker: The Honorable Dr. Henry A. Kissinger In cooperation with the German Consul General in New York
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XIX. European-American Young Leaders Conference
The XIX European-American Young Leaders Conference took place from September 11 to 15. 45 Young Leaders from ten different countries came together for five days in Pristina, Kosovo. The timing for our conference could not have been more appropriate. While Europe struggles to contain the consequences of the war in Ukraine, concern is growing among […]
Video Conference “EU Global Gateway Initiative in Afrika – Neue Chancen für eine Nachhaltige Infrastrukturpolitik?” on November 17, 2022
Speakers: Bienvenue Angui (TBC), Head of Operations – GreenTec Capital Africa Foundation; Gunther Beger, Managing Director of the Directorate of SDG Innovation and Economic Transformation of UNIDO; Reinhard Bütikofer, Member of the European Parliament Moderator: Dr. Daniel Bloemers, Policy Officer at European Commission
Book Launch “I Shall Not Hate” Professor Abuelaish’s bestselling autobiography (meet in-person) on November 15, 2022
Berlin, Germany Speakers: Professor Izzeldin Abuelaish, Professor of Global Health, University of Toronto, Canada Moderator: Nora Müller, Körber Stiftung In cooperation with Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and the Deutsches Orient-Institut
Video Conference “Brazil after the Elections: Future Relations between Germany, the EU and South America’s Largest Country” on November 14, 2022
Speakers: Dr. Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, President, Fundação Getulio Vargas; Rafael Haddad, Managing Director, Lateinamerika-Ausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft Moderator: Dr. Hildegard Stausberg, Honorary member of the board of the Kölner Presseclubs
Brazil after the Elections
On Sunday, Brazilian political titans and bitter rivals Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva face off in a second and final round of elections for president. General elections in the beginning of the month already filled important posts in the country’s National Congress and all federal legislative assemblies. Analysts, even those based in […]
Video Symposium “20. Nationalkongress in China: Quo Vadis?” on November 8, 2022
Speakers: Felix Lee, Correspondent, TAZ; Dr. Angela Stanzel, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik; Jörg Wuttke, BASF China/European Chamber of Commerce in China Moderator: Katrin Otto, Deutsche Börse Group
20th National People’s Congress in China: Quo Vadis?
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held this year from October 16 to 22. Every five years, the Central Committee and the Central Disciplinary Commission are elected, under the chairmanship of the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping. In addition, the period since the last National Congress […]
II Geopolitical Briefing “Zeitenwende: Deutschlands Beitrag zur Wehrhaftigkeit der EU” (Video Symposium) on October 26, 2022
Speakers: Dr. Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Chair of the Defence Committee in the Deutscher Bundestag; Prof. Dr. Marina Henke, Director of the Centre for International Security at the Hertie School Moderator: Dr. Christian Johann, Director, Europäische Akademie Berlin
The Outcome of War in Ukraine Decides the Future of the World Order
Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1935. Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, Poland a year later to gain “Lebensraum in the East“. Two years later he invaded the Soviet Union with the aim of annexing Ukraine for a German “Ingermanland” and “Gotenland.” This tradition of violent land grabbing has been revived with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It […]