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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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. \nJoin us on Monday\, January 10 at 9:00 am ET for the first Kaffeepause of the year with Bloomberg Opinion columnist Andreas Kluth. In addition to talking about what is going on in Berlin\, he’ll also share his outlook for 2022.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F6016414780924%2FWN_YKnRO0GUSOe-vjwPEXqx0g” css=”.vc_custom_1641478129415{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Andreas Kluth is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. Between March of 2017 and February of 2019\, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global\, the English-language edition of Germany’s leading business newspaper. For the two decades before that\, he wrote for The Economist — in London\, Hong Kong\, Silicon Valley\, Los Angeles\, and Berlin.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-28/
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SUMMARY:Negotiating with Russia: What if the Talks Fail?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Earlier this week\, senior U.S. and Russian officials held talks in Geneva. Representatives from the two countries are slated to participate in a NATO-Russian Council meeting in Brussels on Wednesday and will come together again at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Vienna on Thursday. \nThese meetings come at a time when relations between Russia and the United States are fraught. Tensions stem largely from the situation on the border with Ukraine\, where Russia has positioned thousands of troops. U.S. intelligence sources believe that Moscow is planning a military offensive\, but Russia denies any intent to invade Ukraine. The situation is further complicated because Russia sent troops into neighboring Kazakhstan last week after the oil-producing former Soviet republic was hit by a wave of unrest. \nIn two conversations over the past five weeks\, U.S. President Joe Biden warned Putin that Russia would face unprecedented economic sanctions in the event of further aggression against Ukraine. The Group of Seven nations and the European Union have also threatened “massive consequences.” Join the ACG for a discussion with Russia experts Dr. Stefan Meister and Dr. Angela Stent about this week’s talks with Russia.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F5616419175033%2FWN_NBALq5PHTZC7__9azMObnQ” css=”.vc_custom_1641917588520{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr. Stefan Meister has been the head of the German Council on Foreign Relations’ Program on International Order and Democracy since August 2021. From 2019 until then\, he worked as director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s South Caucasus Office. \nFrom 2017 to 2019\, Dr. Meister was head of the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe\, Russia\, and Central Asia at DGAP\, where he had previously headed its program for Eastern Europe\, Russia\, and Central Asia. Before that\, he was a senior policy fellow in the Wider Europe Team at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in Berlin and London. In the 2015/16 term\, Dr. Meister was a visiting fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington\, DC\, where he wrote on Russian disinformation and propaganda. He has served as an election observer for the OSCE in post-Soviet countries several times and worked on conflict transformation and institution building in post-Soviet countries. \nDr. Meister is co-author of Geopolitics and Security: A New Strategy for the South Caucasus (KAS/DGAP/GIP\, 2018)\, The Russia File (Brookings\, 2018)\, Eastern Voices (Center for Transatlantic Relations/DGAP\, 2017)\, and The Eastern Question (Brookings\, 2016). \nHe studied international relations and East European history in Jena\, Leipzig\, and Nizhni Novgorod and holds a Ph.D. from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena with a thesis on the transformation of Russian higher education and research system. \nDr. Angela Stent (1982 ACG Young Leader) is Senior Adviser to the Center for Eurasian\, Russian\, and East European Studies at Georgetown University where she is also Professor Emerita of Government and Foreign Service. She is also a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-chairs its Hewett Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs. From 2004-06 she served as the national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. From 1999 to 2001\, she served in the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. \nDr. Stent’s publications include: From Embargo to Ostpolitik: The Political Economy of West German-Soviet Relations\, 1955-1980 (Cambridge University Press\, 1981); Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification\, The Soviet Collapse and The New Europe (Princeton University Press\, 1999); The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press\, 2014)\, for which she won the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Douglas Dillon prize for the best book on the practice of American Diplomacy. Her most recent book is Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest (Twelve Books\, 2019) for which she won the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy’s prize for the best book on U.S-Russian Relations. \nShe was a member of the senior advisory panel for NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe for Admiral James Stavridis and General Philip Breedlove. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a contributing editor to Survival and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cold War Studies\, World Policy Journal\, Internationale Politik\, and Mirovaia Ekonomika i Mezhdunarodnie Otnosheniie. She has served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Russia and Central Asia. She was a trustee of the Eurasia Foundation. Dr. Stent received her bachelor’s from Cambridge University\, her Master’s of Science with distinction from the London School of Economics and Political Science\, and her master’s and doctorate from Harvard University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/negotiating-with-russia-what-if-the-talks-fail/
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SUMMARY:Russia’s Threat to Ukraine: The West Responds
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Russian President Vladimir Putin has placed crosshairs on Ukraine\, a country he sees as linked to Russia and the people of Ukraine as “one people” with Russians. To back up this fixation with repairing a “historic injustice” Moscow has amassed a force of over 100\,000 troops and supporting armor and aircraft along the border with Ukraine. Leading the West’s response\, President Biden has threatened “massive consequences” if Russia invades Ukraine. \nAmerican and Russian diplomats are meeting this week. However\, the lines are drawn: Putin is demanding an end to NATO’s eastward expansion\, include Ukraine\, and Biden and the West say there will be a very high economic price to pay as well as increased deployments on NATO’s eastern flank. \nWhat is the context for this provocation and what are the U.S. and Allies prepared to do? Join the American Council on Germany and the Tennessee World Affairs Council for a discussion with former ACG Board member Ambassador John Kornblum about the crisis. Joining us from Berlin\, he will also discuss how we got to where we are and what the possible courses of action for the U.S. and Europe might be. The conversation will be led by ACG Young Leader alumnus Dr. Thomas Schwartz\, Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. This event is held in cooperation with the Belmont University Center for International Business and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tnwac.org%2Fcalendar%2Frussias-threat-to-ukraine-the-west-responds-ambassador-john-kornblum-on-u-s-europe-response%2F” css=”.vc_custom_1641925579366{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Ambassador John C. Kornblum has a long record of service in the United States and Europe both as a diplomat and as a businessman. He is recognized as an eminent expert on U.S.-European political and economic relations\, in particular in central and eastern Europe. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1997 to 2001. Before that\, he occupied a number of high-level diplomatic posts\, including U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs\, special envoy for the Dayton Peace Process\, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Process)\, Deputy U.S. Ambassador to NATO\, and U.S. Minister and Deputy Commandant of Forces in divided Berlin. From 2001 to 2009\, he was Chairman of Lazard Freres Germany. He currently serves as Senior Counsellor to the international law firm Noerr LLP and as a senior advisor to the worldwide consultancy Accenture. Ambassador Kornblum has also served on a number of Supervisory and Advisory Boards\, including those of ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG\, Bayer AG\, Russell Reynolds\, and Motorola Europe. He is a member of the Boards of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany\, the American Academy in Berlin\, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin\, and of numerous nonprofit organizations on both sides of the Atlantic\, and he is a former ACG Board member. He received a B.A. from Michigan State University in 1964\, and he has been the recipient of many awards\, including a Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit from Germany and an Order of Merit from Austria. \nDr. Thomas Schwartz (1989 ACG Young Leader) is a historian of the foreign relations of the United States\, with related interests in American politics\, the history of international relations\, Modern European history\, and biography. His most recent book is Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography (Hill and Wang\, 2020).  Earlier in his career\, Schwartz was the author of America’s Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany (Harvard\, 1991)\, which was translated into German. This book received the Stuart Bernath Book Prize of the Society of American Foreign Relations\, and the Harry S. Truman Book Award\, given by the Truman Presidential Library. He is also the author of Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam (Harvard\, 2003)\, which examined the Johnson Administration’s policy toward Europe and assessed the impact of the war in Vietnam on its other foreign policy objectives. He is the co-editor with Matthias Schulz of The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter\, (Cambridge University Press\, 2009). \nProfessor Schwartz has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council\, the German Historical Society\, the Norwegian Nobel Institute\, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\, and the Center for the Study of European Integration. He has served as President of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. He served on the United States Department of State’s Historical Advisory Committee as the representative of the Organization of American Historians from 2005-2008. Professor Schwartz received The Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching on April 3\, 2013\, at the Spring Faculty Assembly\, Vanderbilt University. In 2008 Professor Schwartz received the Annual Alumni Education Award from the Vanderbilt Alumni Association. Schwartz is the recipient of the 2008 Book Award by Chi Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order. This award is given to a faculty member who has been particularly influential in the lives and education of members of KAO. Professor Schwartz presented\, “The Arab Spring: Revolution in the Middle East\,” on April 19\, 2011\, as part of the Samuel L. Shannon Distinguished Lecture Series at Tennessee State University. Professor Schwartz has also presented lectures for the OAH Distinguished Lecturers Program. \nProfessor Schwartz taught for five years at Harvard University and has been teaching at Vanderbilt since 1990.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/russias-threat-to-ukraine-the-west-responds/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220118T090000
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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 Tuesday\, January 18 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with journalist Miriam Hollstein\, Chief Political Reporter for FUNKE Zentralredaktion.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F6616420060401%2FWN_v7WjTGYAT-uBm5aldyRTeA” css=”.vc_custom_1642006075091{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Miriam Hollstein serves as the Chief Reporter for FUNKE Zentralredaktion. She wrote for the Berliner Zeitung while still a student and worked as an editor for Internationale Politik. She worked as a foreign reporter for the Welt am Sonntag\, and from 2006-2014 was a WELT-Gruppe’s domestic policy editor and reporter. From 2015-2020 she worked for the Bild am Sonntag\, first as domestic policy and then from 2018 as chief reporter politics. Her reporting brought her into regular contact with the office of the German Chancellor. Since March 2020 she works as a freelance writer and moderator. \nIn 2009 she published the first graphic biography of Angela Merkel\, entitled “Miss Tschörmanie\,” together with illustrator Heiko Sakurai. She appears regularly on the German news program „Phoenix“\, where she speaks on political and societal issues. She regularly travels internationally for reporting assignments. In addition\, she was a 2005 Marshall Memorial Fellow\, a 2008 ACG McCloy Fellow\, and was recognized in 2015 by the DEFA Stiftung (German Film Corporation Foundation) for her contribution to the preservation of German film heritage.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-29/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T093000
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SUMMARY:Berlin Keynote from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Atlantik-Brücke and its partners\, the American Council on Germany\, Aspen Institute Germany\, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States are honored to host U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken for a keynote on the transatlantic partnership. We cordially invite you to join our live stream for this exceptional occasion. \nThursday\, January 20\, 2022\n3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. (CET)\n9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. (ET)\nLivestream[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Watch Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.contentflow.de%2Fatlantik-bruecke%2F” css=”.vc_custom_1642601643609{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/berlin-keynote-from-u-s-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220121T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220121T110000
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SUMMARY:Germany's New Government: A View from the Opposition
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With a new government coming up to speed in Berlin\, there is no shortage of domestic policy issues on the agenda. From energy and the environment to public health and Covid response and from infrastructure and digitalization to fiscal policy\, there is a lot to do. But\, what is the view from the opposition? \nJoin the American Council on Germany and the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung for a virtual discussion with Markus Blume\, Secretary General of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4716421129881%2FWN_6ArqF3HsQWKWOp8y2NyrJg” css=”.vc_custom_1642113023658{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Markus Blume has been a Member of the Bavarian State Parliament since 2008 and the Secretary General of the Christian Social Union (CSU) since 2018. He has also served as the Chairman of the CSU Economic Commission since 2011 and was the editor-in-chief of the new CSU party platform which was presented in 2016. Mr. Blume first studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich\, and then political science at the Bavaria School of Public Policy Munich.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/germanys-new-government-a-view-from-the-opposition/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220124T090000
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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.\nJoin us on Monday\, January 24 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Sonja Gillert\, Head of Audio for Die Welt\, joined the ACG for a discussion on the meetings between officials from Germany and Russia.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F9416425252103%2FWN_a8ZwiZqXQziHo2H2LWX-bQ” css=”.vc_custom_1642525465594{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-30/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220124T130000
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SUMMARY:Is America Back? Biden and the Transatlantic Partnership: Views from Berlin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“America is back!” \nPresident Joe Biden entered office in January 2021 with a commitment to revive and revitalize relations with allies and partners. This has given hope to the transatlantic community. Over the past year\, there have been positive developments – such as rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement\, the resolution of bilateral trade disputes\, the launch of a new technology and trade initiative as well as a “Futures Forum”\, and an international summit to address the challenges to democracy. But\, there have also been some irritants to the transatlantic relationship – such as the mishandling of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan\, the AUKUS submarine deal\, and some divisions over how to handle relations with China. \nFrom the pandemic to climate change to concerns over Russia and China\, the United States and Europe face a host of common challenges that are best addressed together. However\, some Europeans worry that the United States might not be a reliable partner. \nOne year into the Biden administration\, join the ACG for a discussion about how the United States is perceived from Berlin with Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook\, the Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik\, DGAP)\, and Dr. Stefan Mair\, the Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik\, SWP)[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F1016426159963%2FWN_TJrd-Sa5Sw6JEj6OyO-bSg” css=”.vc_custom_1642616029560{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook is the Director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin. Previously she served as Executive Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School for ten years. The project\, which she co-founded\, addresses 21st-century foreign policy challenges through research by international leaders in academia and diplomacy as well as teaching conflict research and prevention. Since 2018\, Ms. Clüver Ashbrook has also directed a research program on Europe and transatlantic relations. Previously\, she served on the management board of the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels and worked as both a consultant and senior journalist at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in France and China\, among other countries. She began her career as a television journalist at CNN International in Atlanta and London. \nMs. Clüver Ashbrook contributes to international publications\, such as the New York Times and Washington Post\, as well as leading German media on transatlantic relations – especially trade and security policy – and German foreign and digital policy. She also advises foreign ministries in Europe and South America on their digital strategy. \nDr. Stefan Mair has served as Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and Executive Chairman of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) since October 1\, 2020. He began his career at SWP in 1992\, and worked at SWP for 18 years\, first as a researcher on Sub-Saharan Africa and later as a member of the Executive Board. From 2002 to 2010\, he was a member of the management of the SWP\, and from 2007 to 2009\, he was the Director of Research. In 2010 Dr. Mair moved from the SWP to the Federation of German Industries (BDI) to serve on the Executive Board\, with particular responsibility for international issues. \nHe studied Political Sciences\, Economics\, and Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. From 1989 to 1991 he held a scholarship from the ifo-Institute for Economic Research. He was subsequently awarded his doctorate in Political Sciences by the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/is-america-back-biden-and-the-transatlantic-partnership-views-from-berlin/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220128T120000
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SUMMARY:Assessing the Domestic and Foreign Policy Priorities of Germany’s New Government
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After weeks of negotiations following Germany’s federal election in September\, a new government was sworn in on December 8. Following 16 years of conservative leadership under Angela Merkel\, Olaf Scholz became Chancellor. Promising a new start\, his center-left Social Democrats will govern in a coalition together with the Greens and the business-friendly Free Democrats. The new government has ambitious plans to fight climate change by phasing out coal early and focusing on renewable energy\, but its initial priority will be tackling the coronavirus pandemic. \nNearly 50 days into the new government\, we are already seeing tensions within the governing coalition over how to address challenges – ranging from pandemic response to tensions with Russia. Join the American Council on Germany\, Atlantik-Brücke\, and the Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall for a discussion with former U.S. Ambassador to Berlin John B. Emerson and former Federal Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel. The discussion will be moderated by Juliane Schäuble\, U.S. Correspondent of Der Tagesspiegel. Together they will discuss how the new government will address Germany’s domestic and foreign policy priorities.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F6516427166475%2FWN_ArFEn0GDTXCmgGYLnDg0VA” css=”.vc_custom_1642716690436{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Ambassador John B. Emerson was named Chairman of the American Council on Germany at the Council’s Annual Meeting of the Members on January 17\, 2018. He is Vice Chairman at Capital Group International. Previously\, he was U.S. Ambassador to Germany\, from 2013 to 2017. In 2015\, Ambassador Emerson received the State Department’s Sue M. Cobb Award for Exemplary Diplomatic Service\, an award given annually to one non-career Ambassador. In 2017\, the Secretary of the Navy and the Director of the CIA awarded him their highest civilian honors for his service. \nBefore going to Berlin\, he was the President of Capital Group Private Client Services from 1997 to July 2013. Previously\, he served on President Clinton’s senior staff\, from 1993 to 1997\, as Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel\, and subsequently as Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. Ambassador Emerson also coordinated the Economic Conference of the Clinton-Gore transition team and led the Administration’s efforts to obtain congressional approval of the GATT Uruguay Round Agreement in 1994\, and the extension of China’s Most-Favored-Nation trading status in 1996. In 2010\, President Obama appointed Ambassador Emerson to serve on the President’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. Earlier in his career\, Ambassador Emerson served as the Los Angeles Chief Deputy City Attorney (1987-1993). \nIn 1988\, he traveled to Germany on an ACG Political Exchange Fellowship\, carried out in collaboration with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Before that\, he was a Partner at Manatt\, Phelps & Phillips\, specializing in business and entertainment litigation and administrative law. \nSigmar Gabriel was Federal Minister for the Economy and Energy from 2013 to 2017 as well as Vice-Chancellor from 2013 to 2018 and served as Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018. On June 26\, 2019\, Mr. Gabriel was elected Chairman of Atlantik-Brücke by its members.\nMr. Gabriel has been politically active since 1976. Born in Goslar\, he began his political career in a socialist youth organization and joined the SPD in 1977. Two years later\, Gabriel joined the ÖTV union\, and membership in IG Metall and Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO)\, a social welfare organization\, followed. Trained as a high school educator\, he assumed various responsibilities in adult education and became a member of\nLower Saxony’s parliament over the course of the 1980s. During the subsequent decade\, among other positions\, he held the post of chair of the environmental committee of Lower Saxony’s parliament and was a member of the SPD executive committee. He served as prime minister of Lower Saxony from 1999 to 2003\, and he has been a directly elected member of Germany’s Lower House of Parliament since 2005\, taking over the post of the Environmental Minister that same year. Gabriel\, who represents the Salzgitter-Wolfenbüttel district\, occupied the position of SPD chairman from 2009 until 2017. \nJuliane Schäuble (Moderator) is the U.S. Correspondent of Der Tagesspiegel\, Berlin’s biggest newspaper. Before she moved to Washington\, DC\, in June 2018 she was the head of the political department of the paper where she was responsible for the front page and the political section. She has more than twelve years of experience in the business and the political department of Der Tagesspiegel. \nMs. Schäuble earned her Master’s in Political Science at the University in Potsdam\, Germany. Her studies included one semester at American University in Washington\, DC\, where she took classes in American foreign policy and worked part-time for the “American Council of Young Political Leaders” (“Washington Semester Program”).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/assessing-the-domestic-and-foreign-policy-priorities-of-germanys-new-government/
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SUMMARY:On the Ground in Kyiv: A Report from Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\n\nTensions between Russia and Ukraine are spiraling as Russian forces gather along the border and Russia is targeting Ukrainian government agencies with cyberattacks. Meanwhile\, Europe and the United States are trying to develop a collective response to Russia’s aggression and to deter a further invasion of Ukraine. \nLast week a group of German parliamentarians visited Kyiv (and Warsaw) to have a look at the situation on the ground. Bundestag member Metin Hakverdi (SPD) was part of the delegation. Join the American Council on Germany and the New York Office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung for a discussion with Mr. Hakverdi about the trip and about Germany’s position on the Ukraine crisis. \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F3916431216008%2FWN_lDbqgERZQCCMqwmy50XuaA” css=”.vc_custom_1643121640345{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Metin Hakverdi joined the SPD in 2002 and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013. He serves on the Bundestag’s Committee on European Union Affairs and on the Finance Committee. He is the Chairman of the USA/North America Working Group within the SPD Parliamentary Group and a member of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group in the German Bundestag. \nBefore being elected to the Bundestag\, Mr. Hakverdi was a member of the Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 2008 to 2013\, where he was on the Budget Committee and the Committee of Public Companies and Assets. He attended high school in Simi Valley\, California\, in 1985/86 and studied law at the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel and at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law. Mr. Hakverdi was a distinguished visitor at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in 2019 and a 2020 John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at Harvard’s Center for European Studies (CES). He is a member of the Atlantik-Brücke e.V.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/on-the-ground-in-kyiv-a-report-from-ukraine/
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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.\nJoin us on Monday\, January 31 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Melissa Eddy\, Berlin Correspondent for the New York Times. Among other topics\, she will discuss Germany’s response to growing tensions with Russia.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4616432317257%2FWN_2jKZpdnJQRGfD3f8VFGFww” css=”.vc_custom_1643231760412{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Melissa Eddy is a correspondent based in Berlin who covers German politics\, social issues\, and culture for The New York Times. Her most recent work has delved into the challenges of integrating 1 million refugees\, the spate of Islamist terror attacks\, and the legacy of a trove of Nazi-looted art. \nShe has covered Germany’s green energy transformation and Chancellor Angela Merkel since she entered office in 2005. A Minnesota native fluent in German and French\, she came to Germany as a Fulbright scholar in 1996. Before joining The International Herald Tribune\, now the international edition of The New York Times\, in 2015\, she was a correspondent for The Associated Press in Frankfurt\, Vienna\, and the Balkans.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-31/
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