Each week, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin.
Join us on Monday, January 31 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Melissa Eddy, Berlin Correspondent for the New York Times. Among other topics, she will discuss Germany’s response to growing tensions with Russia.
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Kaffeepause: What’s Abuzz in Berlin?
January 31, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am EST
Melissa Eddy is a correspondent based in Berlin who covers German politics, social issues, and culture for The New York Times. Her most recent work has delved into the challenges of integrating 1 million refugees, the spate of Islamist terror attacks, and the legacy of a trove of Nazi-looted art.
She has covered Germany’s green energy transformation and Chancellor Angela Merkel since she entered office in 2005. A Minnesota native fluent in German and French, she came to Germany as a Fulbright scholar in 1996. Before joining The International Herald Tribune, now the international edition of The New York Times, in 2015, she was a correspondent for The Associated Press in Frankfurt, Vienna, and the Balkans.