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 not been able to make progress due to political polarization and partisan gridlock. The German-American State Legislator Dialogue will take on the challenge of infrastructure with...
The amount of money spent on election campaigns in the United States has increased dramatically over time, sparking debate on the influence of money in politics and its impact on the democratic process. While less in focus during this year’s turbulent election season, the topic remains critical as campaign financing has substantial potential to influence...
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, September 16 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with award-winning journalist and ACG fellow Vladimir Balzer.Vladimir Balzer is an award-winning journalist and moderator at Deutschlandfunk Kultur. He grew up in Leipzig and studied...
The American Council on Germany and the Global Coalition on Aging are hosting “The Road to Silver Economy Forum,” a series of webinars taking place in the run-up to the Forum itself on October 15 and 16 in Berlin. This series focuses on issues building on this year’s Forum theme “Leading the Future in an Aging World.” In this fourth and...
Join the American Council on Germany (ACG) and the German-American Institute Saxony (DAIS) for a roundtable discussion on the recent elections in Eastern Germany and the upcoming elections in the United States with three students from Eastern Germany, who will have just completed a study tour to Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, and upstate New York.