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SUMMARY:The Impact of the Proposed US Military Drawdown - for Germany and Beyond"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Last week\, U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced the drawdown of nearly 12\,000 U.S. troops from Germany. This decision will have a significant impact on the security of Europe – and has the potential to change the dynamic of the German-American partnership. \nJoin us on Monday\, August 3 at 11:00 am ET for an online discussion with the Süddeutsche Zeitung’s Deputy Foreign Editor\, Paul-Anton Krüger\, who will discuss the implications of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Germany. (His full bio is below) \nWe hope you can join us for this timely discussion[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2FWN_X1COq9kgT2GY2adbiBWIKg|||” css=”.vc_custom_1596198996465{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Paul-Anton Krüger has been Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Department with a focus on the Middle East and international security since October 2018. Prior to that\, he was a correspondent for large parts of the Arab world and Iran based in Cairo for four years. After graduating from the Alte Landesschule in Korbach\, he studied journalism in Berlin and Munich. In August 2005\, he joined the Süddeutsche Zeitung as a volunteer\, worked as an editor from 2008 and as head of the foreign policy department from 2011. In the fall of 2007\, Mr. Krüger was a guest editor at the Chicago Tribune as part of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship\, the German-American journalism scholarship of the International Journalism Programs e.V.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-impact-of-the-proposed-us-military-drawdown-for-germany-and-beyond/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200807T110000
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SUMMARY:From Structural Change to COVID-19: Sustainable Strategies from Dortmund and Pittsburgh
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cities that were built on iron\, steel\, and coal have had to overcome deep economic challenges and structural changes in recent decades. Both Dortmund and Pittsburgh have rebuilt themselves as thriving metropolises. However\, the spread of COVID-19 is forcing cities to confront a new set of challenges. Three months ago\, the ACG discussed the impact of the pandemic with the Mayors of Dortmund and Pittsburgh. (Watch it here.) \nJoin us on Friday\, August 7\, at 11:00 am ET for the second webinar with William Peduto\, Mayor of Pittsburgh\, and Ullrich Sierau\, Mayor of Dortmund\, for an update on how their cities have developed sustainable strategies to meet the challenges of structural change\, a public health crisis\, and diversity and inclusion in their communities – and how they are preparing for the future. (Their full bios are below) \nThis event is being held under the auspices of Deutschlandjahr 2020 and in cooperation with the Office of International Relations and Sustainable Development of the City of Dortmund and the Office of the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F1015965504492%2FWN_S0XGZ2_URv2xoSvNfsza3w|||” css=”.vc_custom_1596550498485{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]William Peduto was elected to the office of Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh in the General Election on November 5\, 2013\, and took office as Pittsburgh’s 60th Mayor in January of 2014. Prior to taking office\, he worked for 19 years on Pittsburgh City Council – seven years as a staffer then twelve years as a Member of Council. As a Councilman\, Bill Peduto wrote the most comprehensive package of government reform legislation in Pittsburgh’s history. As Mayor\, Peduto continues to champion the protection and enhancement of Pittsburgh’s new reputation – maintaining fiscal responsibility\, establishing community based development plans\, embracing innovative solutions and becoming a leader in green initiatives. \nSince taking office\, Mayor Peduto has led a collaborative effort to make Pittsburgh a leading 21st Century city. The Peduto administration has partnered with the White House on numerous initiatives\, resulting in direct access to federal support related to affordable housing\, education\, economic development\, energy efficiency\, immigration\, manufacturing\, community policing\, workforce development\, technology and transportation. Under Peduto’s leadership the City of Pittsburgh has played an active role in National League of Cities\, U.S. Conference of Mayors and the Pennsylvania Municipal League initiatives. Pittsburgh was recently selected to join the Rockefeller Foundation network’s 100 Resilient Cities\, which provides resources to improve city resilience in the face of climate change\, globalization and urbanization trends. In 2015 Mayor Peduto signed a unique agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy to make the city a world leader in district energy production and Pittsburgh joined the UN’s Compact of Mayors\, a global coalition of climate leaders committed to local action and global impact. Recently Mayor Peduto joined with mayors around the world to reaffirm Pittsburgh’s commitment to the Paris Agreement and efforts to combat climate change. Mayor Peduto is also a founding member of the MetroLab Network\, a national alliance of cities and universities committed to providing analytically-based solutions to improve urban infrastructure\, services and other public sector priorities.\nUllrich Sierau is the Mayor of the City of Dortmund. After completing his degree in urban planning at Dortmund and Oxford\, he worked in the Ministry of Urban Development\, Housing\, and Transportation of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1994\, he became the director of the Dortmund-based Institute for Urban and Regional Development Research of North Rhine-Westphalia (ILS). From 1999–2007 he served as councilor and head of Dortmund’s Department of City Planning before being appointed planning officer for Urban Planning and Infrastructure in 2007. \nIn 2009\, he was elected as Mayor of the City of Dortmund and was re-elected in 2014. Throughout his tenure in office\, Mayor Sierau has focused on implementing sustainable urban development projects. As a result\, Dortmund was awarded the title of Germany’s Most Sustainable City in 2014 and won the title of Germany’s Most Digital City in 2018.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/from-structural-change-to-covid-19-sustainable-strategies-from-dortmund-and-pittsburgh/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200810T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200810T110000
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SUMMARY:Returning to the Skies? Air Travel and COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Virtually every aspect of life has changed due to the spread of COVID-19. Perhaps one of the hardest hit industries is travel. Global stay-at-home orders and travel bans have drastically cut domestic and international travel. As some areas of the world begin to reopen\, airlines and hotels begin to set in place new precautions to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus. When will it be safe to travel again? What will the travel industry look like in a post-pandemic world? \nJoin us on Monday\, August 10 at 10:00 am ET for a special online discussion with Frank Naeve\, Vice President of Sales for the Americas for Lufthansa\, on what COVID-19 means for the airline industry today and in the future.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register here” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4015965531841%2FWN_0v-nBtQ7S-GkrU3xMOhzhw|||” css=”.vc_custom_1596553227467{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Frank Naeve serves as the Vice President of Sales of the Americas for Lufthansa. His professional career commenced in 1987 in the air and sea freight division of the Schenker Company and two years later in 1989\, he joined Lufthansa’s cargo division. \nHis career with Lufthansa has been a varied and exciting one. He attended Lufthansa’s International Airline Professional Program\, a training initiative designed to prepare young executives for future managerial responsibilities\, and following a stint in passenger sales\, he moved to Singapore as Lufthansa Cargo’s Regional Marketing Manager for Southeast Asia and Australia. \nIn 1997\, he moved to the pricing department at Lufthansa Cargo’s Frankfurt-based headquarters and took over as Departmental Manager a year later. Soon after\, he was appointed Manager Career Opportunities\, Development and Recruitment at Deutsche Lufthansa AG. \nMr. Naeve moved to Shanghai in November 2001 as General Manager Sales Greater China\, and four years later returned to Frankfurt as Vice President Margin Management. In 2011\, he rose to the position of General Manager of Jade Cargo International\, a Chinese joint venture of Lufthansa Cargo\, and in 2014 became Vice President\, Digitization of Lufthansa Cargo. \nHe was appointed Vice President Asia-Pacific in 2015\, and two years later was named Vice President Region South & Southeast Asia and Vice President Region Northern Asia.  And\, on May 1st\, 2019\, he was appointed Lufthansa Group Vice President of Sales for the Americas\, responsible for sales of the group’s carriers in North & South America out of the group’s New York regional headquarters.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/returning-to-the-skies-air-travel-and-covid-19/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200811T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200811T120000
DTSTAMP:20260614T055247
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SUMMARY:Defense Spending\, the U.S. Military Drawdown\, and More: Assessing the German-American Relationship at a Critical Juncture
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There are a number of important issues on the transatlantic agenda. And\, yet the relevance of the partnership between the United States and Germany has been called into question in recent years. From defense spending and the proposed U.S. military drawdown\, to transatlantic trade and investment\, to relations with other countries such as China and Russia\, the German-American relationship has been charged. With the German presidency of the European Council\, what can we expect for the transatlantic relationship in the months and years to come? \nJoin us on Tuesday\, August 11 at 11:00 am ET for an online discussion about the evolving German-American relationship with Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT)\, Senior Member of House Committee on Armed Services\, and Bundestag Member Dr. Tobias Lindner (Die Grüne)\, Spokesman for Security Policy\, Chairman of the Defense Committee. The event will be moderated by Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook\, Executive Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project and Executive Director of The Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at the Harvard Kennedy School and Co-Director of the ACG’s Eric M. Warburg Chapter in Boston. \nThis event is being held as part of WunderbarTogetherUSA 2020\, a comprehensive and collaborative initiative funded by the Germany Federal Foreign Office and implemented together with the Goethe-Institut.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F7415967258090%2FWN_AqF1ko-iQnmYYUAw-dtr0g|||” css=”.vc_custom_1596725849432{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]A public school teacher turned public servant\, Rob Bishop represents Utah’s First Congressional District in the U.S. Congress. Congressman Bishop is a life-long resident of the First District\, with the exception of two years he spent in Germany while serving a mission for the LDS Church. He was born and raised in Kaysville\, Utah. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Utah with a degree in Political Science. He started teaching at Box Elder High School (BEHS) in Brigham City in 1974. From 1980 through 1985 he taught German and coached debate at Ben Lomond High School in Ogden\, Utah\, before returning to BEHS. Before retiring in December of 2002\, he taught advanced placement courses in government and U.S. History\, while serving as the Chair of the History Department at BEHS. Now in his ninth term in the House\, Congressman Bishop serves as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources and as a Senior Member of House Committee on Armed Services where he sits on the Readiness Subcommittee and the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee. \nSince 2011\, Dr. Tobias Lindner has served as Member of the Bundestag\, representing Südpfalz. He currently serves as Spokesman for Security Policy\, Chairman of the Defense Committee\, Member of the Budget Committee\, Deputy Chairman of the Audit Committee\, Chairman of the Green Regional Group Rhineland-Pfalz. He joined the Green Party in 1998\, later serving as Party chairman of Germersheim County and the City of Wörth am Rhein. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). \nCathryn Clüver Ashbrook is a German and American national and the founding Executive Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)\, which examines the challenges to negotiation and statecraft in the 21st century. In January 2018\, she was named Executive Director of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship. From 2011-2017\, she served as the Executive Director of the India and South Asia Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at HKS\, a program which ended formal activities in 2018. Her areas of expertise include EU-US relations – including trade and security policy – and digital public policy in urban and national contexts[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/defense-spending-the-u-s-military-drawdown-and-more-assessing-the-german-american-relationship-at-a-critical-juncture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200812T110000
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SUMMARY:Pipeline Politics: The Transatlantic Debate over Nord Stream II
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In mid-July\, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced revised guidelines regarding sanctions on energy pipeline projects – including Nord Stream II and TurkStream. The Trump administration is concerned that Nord Stream II\, which is nearing completion\, threatens to give Moscow economic and political leverage over Europe and will undermine Europe’s energy security. However\, these new sanctions may also lead to further tensions in the transatlantic relationship. \nJoin us on Wednesday\, August 12 at 11:00 am ET for an online discussion about Nord Stream II\, European energy policy\, and what this all means for the transatlantic relationship featuring Ambassador Daniel Fried\, Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council and former US Ambassador to Poland\, and Dr. Kirsten Westphal\, Head of Geopolitics of Energy Transformation for the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F6215971708963%2FWN_5APaKD4VQ9eDDbqZ57_r2Q|||” css=”.vc_custom_1597170950148{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Ambassador Daniel Fried is the Atlantic Council’s Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow. In the course of his forty-year Foreign Service career\, Ambassador Fried played a key role in designing and implementing American policy in Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. As special assistant and NSC senior director for Presidents Clinton and Bush\, ambassador to Poland\, and assistant secretary of state for Europe (2005-09)\, Ambassador Fried crafted the policy of NATO enlargement to Central European nations and\, in parallel\, NATO-Russia relations\, thus advancing the goal of Europe whole\, free\, and at peace. During those years\, the West’s community of democracy and security grew in Europe. Ambassador Fried helped lead the West’s response to Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine starting in 2014: as State Department coordinator for sanctions policy\, he crafted US sanctions against Russia\, the largest US sanctions program to date\, and negotiated the imposition of similar sanctions by Europe\, Canada\, Japan\, and Australia. \nAmbassador Fried became one of the US government’s foremost experts on Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. While a student\, he lived in Moscow\, majored in Soviet studies and history at Cornell University (BA magna cum laude 1975)\, and received an MA from Columbia’s Russian Institute and School of International Affairs in 1977. He joined the US Foreign Service later that year\, serving overseas in Leningrad (human rights\, Baltic affairs\, and consular officer)\, and Belgrade (political officer)\, and in the Office of Soviet Affairs in the State Department. \nAs Polish desk officer in the late 1980s\, Fried was one of the first in Washington to recognize the impending collapse of Communism in Poland\, and helped develop the immediate response of the George H.W. Bush Administration to these developments. As political counselor at the US Embassy in Warsaw (1990-93)\, Fried witnessed Poland’s difficult but ultimately successful free market\, democratic transformation\, working with successive Polish governments. \nAmbassador Fried also served as the State Department’s first special envoy for the closure of the Guantanamo (GTMO) Detainee Facility. He established procedures for the transfer of individual detainees and negotiated the transfers of seventy detainees to twenty countries\, with improved security outcomes.\nDr. Kirsten Westphal is based at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)\, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. For more than 50 years\, the SWP has provided analysis on foreign policy issues not only to the Bundestag and the German Federal Government\, but also to economic actors and the general public. \nDr. Westphal is assigned for International Energy Relations and Global Energy Security at the institute. She was a Member of the Expert Panel to the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation in 2018-2019 and contributed to the Commission’s Report “A New World”\, published in 2019. In parallel\, she has been leading the Project “Geopolitics of Energy Transformation 2030 (GET 2030)” supported by the German Federal Foreign Office. Over the course of 2019/2020 the follow-up project (EU GET 2030) examines the geopolitics of the energy transformation from the EU’s perspective. This project involves IFRI in Paris\, PISM in Warsaw; and Real Instituto Elcano in Madrid. It is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office. \nSince 2015\, Westphal has been conducting a series of Track 2 dialogues with Russia and Poland\, with the kind support of the German Federal Foreign Office. Previously\, she has worked as a consultant in the energy industry. She has experience in international election observation missions of the OSCE and EU. She is on the Advisory Board of the Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research (REKK) Foundation\, Budapest\, member of the Scientific Council of the Royal Institute Elcano\, Madrid\, and on the Editorial Board of the European Energy & Climate Journal. \nShe has published widely on international energy relations and EU external energy relations. Her books include Global Energy Governance in a Multipolar World (Aldershot/ Burlington Ashgate 2010); and The Political and Economic Challenges of Energy in the Middle East and North Africa (Routledge\, 2018). Her recent publications on the geopolitics of energy transformation\, on energy security reimagined in times of decarbonization and on the operationalization of SDG 7 have appeared in Nature\, Global Policy\, Energy Strategy Review\, European Energy Journal and at SWP among others.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/pipeline-politics-the-transatlantic-debate-over-nord-stream-ii/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200818T110000
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SUMMARY:The Challenge of COVID-19: How Is the German Social System Coping?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nCOVID-19 has disproportionally affected low income and minority communities\, increased the digital divide\, shown weakness in healthcare systems\, and changed the nature of everyday life including work and education. Although Germany was able to suppress the infection rate\, the pandemic has taken a toll on its social system.\n\n\nJoin us on Tuesday\, August 18 at 11:00 am ET for a webinar with Bundestag Member Ekin Deligӧz (Green Party)\, who serves on the Bundestag’s Budget Committee and as Spokeswoman for the Bavarian Greens in the Bundestag. She will discuss the impact of the pandemic on German society. \nThis event is being held as part of WunderbarTogetherUSA 2020\, a comprehensive and collaborative initiative funded by the Germany Federal Foreign Office and implemented together with the Goethe-Institut. \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4415971707621%2FWN_RbfeiIHgTCG0__NUJtOmmw|||” css=”.vc_custom_1597170798502{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]In September 1979\, Ekin Deligöz came with her family from Turkey to Germany. In 1992\, she passed her Abitur in Weißenhorn\, Bavaria and then completed a degree in administrative sciences in Constance and Vienna\, which she finished in 1998 as a graduate in administrative science. \nIn 1991\, she was one of the co-founders of the Bavarian State Association of Green Youth and at that time was the spokeswoman for the “Grün Bunt Alternative Jugend Bayern”. \nMs. Deligöz has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1998. From 2002 to 2005\, she was Parliamentary Managing Director of the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. From 1998 to 2009\, she was a member of the children’s commission of the German Bundestag. From 2005 to 2009\, she was deputy chair of the Bundestag committee for families\, seniors and women. Between 2009 and 2013\, Ms. Deligöz was one of the deputy group chairwomen of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Bundestag. \nSince 2013\, she has been a member of the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag and chairwoman of the Greens in the Audit Committee. She is also a deputy member of the Labor and Social Affairs Committee and spokeswoman for the Bavarian Greens in the Bundestag. Since 2018\, Ms. Deligöz has served as the Vice president of the German Child Protection Association “Deutscher Kinderschutzbund”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-challenge-of-covid-19-how-is-the-german-social-system-coping/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200821T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200821T130000
DTSTAMP:20260614T055247
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SUMMARY:The 2020 Political Conventions: Reactions from Berlin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Due to the COVID-19 pandemic\, for the first time\, the Democratic and Republican National Conventions are being held as virtual events on national television. With dozens of speakers each day\, this new format is like a highly choreographed Zoom event with viewers tuning in from across the country and around the world. \nJoin us on Friday\, August 21 at 12:00 pm ET (following the Democratic Convention) and Friday\, August 28  at 12:00 pm ET (following the Republican Convention)\, for a conversation with a group of Bundestag members who are following the conventions from Berlin.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F2415978716750%2FWN_ZSsg3yOfTbWylrVqsjSvXA|||” css=”.vc_custom_1597871735080{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/the-2020-political-conventions-reactions-from-berlin/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200828T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200828T130000
DTSTAMP:20260614T055247
CREATED:20200819T211937Z
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SUMMARY:The 2020 Political Conventions: Reactions from Berlin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Due to the COVID-19 pandemic\, for the first time\, the Democratic and Republican National Conventions are being held as virtual events on national television. With dozens of speakers each day\, this new format is like a highly choreographed Zoom event with viewers tuning in from across the country and around the world. \nJoin us on Friday\, August 28  at 12:00 pm ET (following the Republican Convention)\, for a conversation with Bundestag members Franziska Brantner (The Greens)\, Thomas Erndl (CSU)\, and Alexander Kulitz (FDP)\, who are following the conventions from Berlin.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register here” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F6615978719033%2FWN_a_EMMYakT8Wf8Rjf-zhCpg|||” css=”.vc_custom_1598365046263{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/the-2020-political-conventions-reactions-from-berlin-2/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200831T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200831T120000
DTSTAMP:20260614T055247
CREATED:20200831T133640Z
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SUMMARY:Wir schaffen das: Five Years Later
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As the conflict in Syria was intensifying\, millions of Syrians sought to escape the danger any way possible – mostly on foot. For many\, Germany was the ideal destination. After visiting a refugee camp in Dresden\, on August 31\, 2015\, Chancellor Angela Merkel said “Wir schaffen das” – or “We can manage this” – referring to Europe’s ability to cope with mass migration from Syria. By the end of the year\, Germany became the destination for over one million refugees. \nNow five years later\, on August 31 at 11 am\, the ACG will host a virtual discussion on the lasting impact of the estimated 1.1 million migrants who settled in Germany in 2015 and the millions more who settled elsewhere in Europe. Join us for a discussion with Adam Hunter\, Executive Director of the Refugee Council USA; Jagoda Marinic\, writer and columnist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Director of the International Welcome Center in Heidelberg; Victoria Rietig\, Head of the Migration Program at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register here” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F5015988809044%2FWN_ikqhMpWPTeiIzYCR559rBA|||” css=”.vc_custom_1598880942656{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/wir-schaffen-das-five-years-later/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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