This past weekend marked a major step in Germany’s commitment to supporting Kyiv in its battle against the Russian invasion. On Saturday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced an arms package to provide more tanks, armored vehicles, and air defense systems to Ukraine, totaling 2.7 billion euros – or nearly $3 billion. The announcement came just before...
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, May 22 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Melanie Amann, Co-Editor-in-Chief for Der Spiegel.Melanie Amann is a German journalist and lawyer. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the leading German weekly newspaper, Der Spiegel, and heads...
While global challenges are addressed by national governments, increasingly subnational actors such as states, communities, and cities have needed to step up to take action when traditional nation-states have been unable to make progress due to political polarization and partisan gridlocks. This trend has also characterized transatlantic relations and the German-American partnership. The German-American State Legislator...
Disinformation and fake news are a cause for serious concern. This is true for the natural sciences as well – despite the abundance of peer-reviewed publications. A recent study indicates that nearly a third of the scientific papers that are published by the scientific and research community each year are fake. That could mean that...
On May 28, voters in Turkey returned to the polls to cast the deciding vote in the second round of presidential elections, the first run-off election in the country’s history. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defeated opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu and stretched his rule into a third decade. Two weeks earlier, on May 14, tens of...