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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 Kaffeepause\, or coffee break\, with a journalist to discuss the latest developments in Berlin. On August 9\, the ACG will be joined by Sonja Gillert\, Editor for Die Welt.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F5116280065187%2FWN_93TF_AE-RQerRLar4eoMFA” css=”.vc_custom_1628006635171{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-12/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210811T150000
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SUMMARY:The Strategic Importance of American Leadership and Partnership with Europe
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Los Angeles Warburg Chapter will host a discussion and luncheon with Lieutenant General (Ret.) Ben Hodges\, Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis\, on “The Strategic Importance of American Leadership and Partnership with Europe” with special guest Stefan Schneider\, Consul General in Los Angeles. \nThere is a $75 ($55 for ACG Members) charge to attend this event. RSVP (acceptances only) to the American Council on Germany at events@acgusa.org by Monday\, August 9. Space is limited. Once capacity is reached\, a waitlist will be created. Valet Parking available at $15[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Lieutenant General (Retired) Ben Hodges holds the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis. He joined CEPA in February 2018. \nA native of Quincy\, Florida\, General Hodges graduated from the United States Military Academy in May 1980 and was commissioned in the Infantry. After his first assignment as an Infantry Lieutenant in Garlstedt\, Germany\, he commanded Infantry units at the Company\, Battalion\, and Brigade levels in the 101st Airborne Division\, including Command of the First Brigade Combat Team “Bastogne” of the 101st Airborne Division in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (2003-2004). His other operational assignments include Chief of Operations for Multi-National Corps-Iraq in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (2005-2006) and Director of Operations\, Regional Command South in Kandahar\, Afghanistan (2009-2010). \nGeneral Hodges has also served in a variety of Joint and Army Staff positions to include Tactics Instructor; Chief of Plans\, 2nd Infantry Division in Korea; Aide-de-Camp to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Chief of Staff\, XVIII Airborne Corps; Director of the Pakistan Afghanistan Coordination Cell on the Joint Staff; Chief of Legislative Liaison for the United States Army; and Commander\, NATO Allied Land Command (İzmir\, Turkey). His last military assignment was as Commanding General\, United States Army Europe (Wiesbaden\, Germany) from 2014 to 2017. He retired from the U.S. Army in January 2018. \nStefan Schneider has been Consul General in Los Angeles since September 2018. He started his diplomatic career in 1987 and his many assignments have taken him all over the world. He served as Head of the Legal and Consular Section in Thailand\, Head of the Trade and Commerce Section in Bulgaria\, Deputy Consul  General in Miami\, Counsellor for Political Affairs in Paris and Consul  General in Izmir.  Before being posted to Los Angeles\, he served as Head of the Cultural Affairs Department at the German Embassy in Rome. At the German Foreign Office\, he was assigned to the Middle East desk\, the Disarmament and Arms Control desk\, the German as a Foreign Language division\, and he served as Head of International Academic Exchange\, also responsible for the Fulbright Program. Mr. Schneider studied law in Munich and Cologne. He also earned a degree in French literature from the Sorbonne University in Paris.  He speaks English\, French\, Italian\, Spanish and Bulgarian.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-strategic-importance-of-american-leadership-and-partnership-with-europe/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210816T090000
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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 Monday\, August 16 at 9:00 am ET for a discussion with journalist Gordon Repinski\, Deputy Editor-in-Chief at ThePioneer.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F2216287088884%2FWN_IWi4Q4gdRMi_TkOew-O9MA” css=”.vc_custom_1628708973760{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Gordon Repinski serves as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief at ThePioneer. He is a graduate of the German School of Journalism. He worked for five years as a correspondent for Der Spiegel (including in Washington D.C. and Berlin). Most recently\, the award-winning journalist (Otto Brenner Prize 2010\, Arthur Burns Prize 2011) headed the main city bureau of the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND). At ThePioneer\, he looks wrote about SPD\, the Greens\, and global politics\, among other things[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-13/
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SUMMARY:The Corona Crisis as a Catalyst for Greater Transatlantic Cooperation on China
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The spread of the Covid-19 from Wuhan to the rest of the world underscores just how interconnected – and interdependent – the world has become. The spread of new variants also makes clear that no one is safe as long as the virus is rampant in other parts of the world. Addressing the pandemic can only be done together with China. All countries should have a vested interest in great cooperation when it comes to overcoming the pandemic. \nThe current crisis is just one of many issues that connect Europe and the United States with China. Join the American Council on Germany for a virtual discussion with Bundestag Member Nils Schmid\, the Foreign Policy Spokesperson for the SPD\, about the need for Europe to develop a common approach to China and opportunities for greater transatlantic cooperation vis-à-vis China.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F8616292154354%2FWN_5_JcUBHSTzSwJ7vRxNUdrg” css=”.vc_custom_1629215479749{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Nils Schmid has been a Member of the German Bundestag since September 2017. He is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and has been the foreign policy spokesperson for the SPD parliamentary caucus since 2018. He is also a deputy member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure. In addition\, he is a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly. \nIn 1997\, Mr. Schmid became a member of the state assembly of Baden-Württemberg. After his reelection in 2001\, he became fiscal policy spokesperson for the SPD’s state assembly caucus. In 2006\, his caucus elected him as deputy chairman. In 2009\, the state party elected him chairman of the Baden-Württemberg SPD. He held that office until 2016. From 2011 to 2016\, he was Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of the state of Baden-Württemberg as well as Deputy Minister-President.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-corona-crisis-as-a-catalyst-for-greater-transatlantic-cooperation-on-china/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210823T090000
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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. Next week we will discuss the inner circle around the three main candidates for chancellor\, Annalena Baerbock\, Armin Laschet\, and Olaf Scholz. \nJoin us on Monday\, August 23 at 9:00 am ET for a discussion about the key advisors in the run-up to next month’s German federal election with political journalist Corinna Emundts.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F8016293786886%2FWN_O6erA0KARo2vC7KXUronmQ” css=”.vc_custom_1629379489897{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Corinna Emundts (2004 ACG Kellen Fellow) is a political journalist in Berlin. From 2008 to 2013\, she was head of the Berlin editorial department of tagesschau.de. Since February 2013\, she is the coordinator of and correspondent for tagesschau.de in ARD’s Berlin studio. As a freelance political correspondent\, she wrote and reported from Berlin between 2004 and 2008 for the Hamburg weekly newspaper Die Zeit and “tagesschau.de” as well as Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio. Before that\, the political scientist and winner of the Theodor Wolff Prize in 1995 worked as an editor and reporter for the Süddeutsche Zeitung\, Frankfurter Rundschau\, and Die Woche.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-14/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210827T180000
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SUMMARY:The Growing Political Divide in the United States and Germany
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Roundtable discussion on the growing political divide in the U.S. and Germany with Luisa Emmi Beck\, Berlin Correspondent for the Washington Post and 2020 ACG McCloy Fellow. \nThis discussion will take place in person\, masks are recommended. \nMore information here: https://www.gaimn.org/acg-roundtable/ \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-growing-political-divide-in-the-united-states-and-germany/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210830T090000
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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\, August 30 at 9:00 am ET for a discussion with journalist Miriam Hollstein\, Chief Political Reporter for FUNKE Zentralredaktion. We’ll begin by getting her take on the first debate between the three candidates for chancellor\, which takes place Sunday.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F8616300009522%2FWN_6e4CxkP1Sy-CyVNVTEjsRw” css=”.vc_custom_1630000986505{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-15/
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