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, March 14 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause on the latest developments in Ukraine, among other topics, with Sumi Somoskanda, Senior News Anchor at DW News (Deutsche Welle).Sumi Somoskanda is...
Each day, the reports from Ukraine are getting worse as the fighting continues and people try to evacuate their homes. Join the American Council on Germany and the Tennessee World Affairs Council for a discussion with Ambassador John Kornblum, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, and Dr. Liana Fix, Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the...
Barely 100 days into office, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his three-party Ampelkoalition have already made history. After 16 years of government led by Angela Merkel and the Christian Democrats, in December a new government took over led by Olaf Scholz and the Social Democrats together with the Greens and the liberal Free Democrats. Initially, Germany’s...
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, March 21 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause on the latest in German politics as well as developments in Ukraine with Rob Schmitz, International Correspondent for NPR, Berlin.Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent...
Following last year’s general election, voters in four German states will take to the polls this year. The first election is in Saarland on March 27 – followed by elections in Schleswig-Holstein and North-Rhine Westphalia in May and Lower Saxony in October. While the Social Democrats (SPD) are looking to consolidate their power at the...