Virtual Discussions

In December 2020, at the end of her tenure as German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed through the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) - which had been negotiated in 35 meetings over a seven year period and was intended to replace individual bilateral treaties between EU member states and China. This move caused some consternation...

he ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse.  Join us on Monday, April 3, at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Journalist Miriam Hollstein, Chief Reporter for T-Online in Berlin and 2008 ACG McCloy Fellow.Miriam Hollstein serves as the Chief Reporter for T-Online...

In recent years, there have been numerous waves of protests in Iran against the country’s corrupt theocracy. The death of Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, while in police custody for wearing an “improper” hijab, has triggered what has become the most severe and sustained political upheaval ever faced by the Islamist regime in Tehran. Waves of...

Three years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the launch of our virtual transatlantic discussion series "Resilience and Adaptation" with 24 episodes covering a range of social, political, and economic implications, 1014 and the American Council on Germany are launching a new virtual discussion series to revisit some of the same themes and examine...

The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse.  Join us on Monday, April 17 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Karina Mößbauer, Chief Reporter of the Politics Department/ Parliament Office for BILDKarina Mößbauer has been the Chief Reporter for the Politics Department and Parliament Office...

The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, April 24 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Henrike Roßbach, Deputy Head and Correspondent for the Parliamentary Office for the Süddeutsche Zeitung.Henrike Roßbach is the Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Office for the Süddeutsche Zeitung....

Germany’s far-left Die Linke and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) could not be further apart on the political spectrum. But, they share some common ground: For months, figures in both parties have been described as Russlandversteher who are sympathetic to Moscow. At demonstrations across Germany, these political opposites have come together under the banner of peace...