After months of planning, Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive to reclaim wide swaths of land occupied by Russian forces is progressing "slower than desired," according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Intense battles are taking place in eastern and southern Ukraine, and some Western analysts have observed that Ukraine’s efforts are “not meeting expectations” on the battlefield because...
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, July 10 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Malte Lehming, Opinion Writer for Tagesspiegel.Malte Lehming works as a writer for the Tagesspiegel, where he heads the opinion page. From late 2000 to 2005, he was...
The pandemic was an inflection point for commerce and business. Companies had to adapt to new ways of working to stay afloat during the economic slowdown. Using artificial intelligence, diversifying employment models from full-time jobs to gig workers and crowd-sourcing, and moving to flex-work and hybrid workplaces were all part of what has become the...
Last month, Germany’s government presented a new strategy for dealing with China. This comes on the heels of the release of Germany’s first National Security Strategy in mid-June. The long-awaited China Strategy – a draft of which was leaked in November – takes into account that the relationship between China and Germany (and the European...
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, August 21 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Simon Book, Editor for Der Spiegel and 2016 ACG Kellen Fellow.Simon Book serves as an Editor in the Economics Department for Der Spiegel....