• Germany’s New Government: National Priorities and Transatlantic Relations

    Chapter Events

    The American Council on Germany, the Hanns Seidel Foundation, and WorldBoston will host a discussion and luncheon in Boston with Ilse Aigner, President of the Landtag of the Federal State of Bavaria.Ilse Aigner was born on December 7, 1964, in Feldkirchen-Westerham and obtained her intermediate school-leaving certificate (Mittlere Reife) in 1981 at the Wilhelm-Leibl-Realschule in...

  • The Trump-Putin Meeting and the Future of Ukraine

    Virtual Discussions

    The world is watching as Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump meet in Alaska — a momentous summit on American soil to discuss the war in Ukraine....

  • Assessing the First 100 Days of the Merz Government

    Virtual Discussions

    In early May, Conservative politician Friedrich Merz won a vote in the Bundestag to become Germany's new chancellor, after falling short of the absolute majority in the first ballot. This...