The American Council on Germany and the Global Coalition on Aging are launching a series of virtual events called “The Road to Silver Economy Forum,” which will take place in the run-up to the Forum itself on October 15 and 16 in Berlin. The series will focus on a range of issues building on the...
The LA Warburg Chapter will host a discussion and luncheon with Peter Beyer, Member of the Bundestag (CDU)Peter Beyer has served in the German Bundestag since 2009. After finishing his higher education entrance qualification in 1991, he completed his military service in Wuppertal. Beyer then studied law at the universities of Düsseldorf and Bonn. In...
On May 2, the American Council on Germany, the German Law Journal, the Robert Bosch Foundation Alumni Association, and Orte der Demokratiegeschichte will host a discussion and reception with Prof. Eckart Goebel, Chair of Comparative Literature and German Philology at the University of Tübingen, and Dr. Natalia Savelyeva, Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin and Future Russia...
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 6 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Bojan Pancevski, Germany Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.Bojan Pancevski is The Wall Street Journal’s Germany correspondent, covering all aspects of Europe’s largest economy and its...
From April 19 to June 1, general elections are being held in India to elect 543 members of the Lok Sabha (the House of the People, India’s lower house) and the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi is running for a third consecutive term. This is the biggest election in history – and lasts 44 days...
The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Prof. Dr. Daniela Schwarzer, Member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Executive Board and Author of Krisenzeit - Sicherheit, Wirtschaft, Zusammenhalt – Was Deutschland jetzt tun muss (September 2023). Please email events(at)acgusa.org for more information. Prof. Dr. Daniela Schwarzer joined the Executive Board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung in...
In 2022-2023 the American Council on Germany implemented a series of immersive study tours to Germany – three with America Works (an initiative of the MEP National Network) and another in collaboration with the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness and the State Economic Development Executive network – to learn about Germany’s dual vocational education system...
With elections for the European parliament early next month and the U.S. Presidential election on the horizon, campaigning in 2024 is heating up on both sides of the Atlantic. We are seeing increasing polarization and fragmentation of the political landscape – and even a calcification of positions. Yet, on both sides of the Atlantic, many...