On December 5, the French Prime Minister, Michael Barnier, resigned after the left-wing coalition, New Popular Front, and the far-right National Rally Party, collaborated to topple his government. Only three months after it took office, Barnier’s government is the first to fall from a no-confidence vote in more than 60 years. The political dispute, which...
Rebel forces in Syria have been steadily gaining ground in recent weeks. The culmination of their advances came on December 8, when the Iranian backed President Bashar al-Assad was forced into exile in Russia, essentially ending the 12-year civil war. Without Assad in power, the influence of Iran has suffered a major blow in the...
How is the Shoah addressed in museums? How do museums extend the representation and education of this singular rupture in the history of humankind to other genocides? What can be understood as universal lesson from the Shoah, and what consequences need to be drawn from it when it comes to the question of solidarity? Please...
Join us on Monday, December 16, for a special edition of the ACG’s regular Kaffeepause. We’ll discuss the results of the German Bundestag’s confidence vote with Cameron Adabi, deputy editor at Foreign Policy, and Rüdiger Lentz, senior political advisor for the firm of Rud Pedersen. We’ll also talk about the first three years of the Ampelkoalition and the outlook for Germany’s...
The ACG is having a discussion with Till Knorn, German Consul General in New York, on, "German Politics and the Future of German-American Relations.” Till Knorn has been the German Consul General in New York since August 2024. Prior to that he served as the Chief of Protocol in the German Foreign Office (2020 to...