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SUMMARY:AI and the Law:  A View from the Free State of Bavaria
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a discussion and reception with H.E. Georg Eisenreich\, Minister of Justice of the Free State of Bavaria. \nMinister Georg Eisenreich is a German politician (CSU) and lawyer. He has been a member of the Bavarian State Parliament since 2003. From October 2013 to March 2018\, he was State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture\, Science\, and the Arts\, and from March 2018 to November 2018\, he was Bavarian State Minister for Digital\, Media\, and Europe. \nIn November 2018\, he was appointed Bavarian State Minister of Justice. Minister Eisenreich is one of his state’s representatives at the Bundesrat\, where he serves on the Committee on European Affairs. Before entering politics\, Mr. Eisenreich worked as a lawyer in Munich. \nRegister below:[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/ai-and-the-law-a-view-from-the-free-state-of-bavaria/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250807T120000
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SUMMARY:Germany’s New Government: National Priorities and Transatlantic Relations
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fgermanys-new-government-national-priorities-and-transatlantic-relations-tickets-1513051099569%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator” css=”.vc_custom_1753716510024{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]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 Bad Aibling. After training as a radio and television technician and gaining several years of professional experience in her family’s medium-sized electrical craft business\, she completed advanced training to become a certified electrical engineer. From 1990 to 1994\, she worked in the development of system electronics for helicopters at Eurocopter. Ilse Aigner began her political career as a municipal councilor in Feldkirchen-Westerham and a district councilor in the Rosenheim district council. She took on leadership roles within the CSU at an early stage. In 1994\, she was elected to the Bavarian State Parliament for the first time\, serving one legislative term before becoming a member of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2013. During this time\, she was actively involved in various commissions\, working groups\, and committees\, and took on numerous leadership roles. From 2008 to 2013\, Ilse Aigner served as Federal Minister of Food\, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Since 2013\, she has again been a member of the Bavarian State Parliament. For five years\, Ilse Aigner held the position of Deputy Minister President and Bavarian State Minister for Economic Affairs and Media\, Energy and Technology\, before heading the Bavarian Ministry of Housing\, Building and Transport as State Minister for six months starting in March 2018. Since October 2018\, Ilse Aigner has been President of the Bavarian State Parliament\, making her the highest representative of the Bavarian Parliament. In addition to her extensive political work\, she is also actively involved in a variety of volunteer activities.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/germanys-new-government-national-priorities-and-transatlantic-relations/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250814T083000
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SUMMARY:Strengthening European Strategic Autonomy  in Challenging Times
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a breakfast briefing with Burkhard Balz\, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank. \nBurkhard Balz has been a member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank since September 2018. He is responsible for the Directorates General Payments and Settlement Systems\, Cash Management\, Digital Euro and International Central Bank Dialogue. Since January 2024\, he is an alternate member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements. Prior to this\, he was a member of the European Parliament (CDU) and served as the EPP Group’s Coordinator on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs starting in 2014. Before his time in the European Parliament\, Mr. Balz was the Head of the Department for Institutional Clients at Commerzbank AG from 2004 to 2009. He has also held the positions of Corporate Customer Advisor at Commerzbank AG (2002-2004) and Desk Officer at the Commerzbank AG Liaison Office to the European Union in Brussels (2001-2002). \nMr. Balz studied Law and Political Science at the University of Göttingen.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/strengthening-european-strategic-autonomy-in-challenging-times/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T110000
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SUMMARY:The Trump-Putin Meeting and the Future of Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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. Trump\, who had pledged during his 2024 campaign to bring a swift end to the conflict\, entered the talks under intense global scrutiny. The historic meeting marked the first time the two leaders have sat down face-to-face since Trump’s return to the White House\, with stakes running high for U.S. foreign policy\, NATO unity\, and the future of Ukraine’s sovereignty. For Germany — a key NATO ally and one of Ukraine’s strongest supporters — the implications of these talks for its security posture and role in transatlantic relations remain to be seen. \nJoin us on August 21 for an online conversation with renowned Russia expert Dr. Angela Stent as we unpack the negotiations\, explore the future paths for both Russia and Ukraine\, and assess what this summit means for the international order.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F8517554742591%2FWN_h5Ve46vaQUCRq_UTwdmqzw” css=”.vc_custom_1755474362009{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-radius: 1px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr. 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 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 Pres\, 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 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/the-trump-putin-meeting-and-the-future-of-ukraine/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250826T110000
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SUMMARY:Assessing the First 100 Days of the Merz Government
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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 was a significant blow to his prestige and an unprecedented failure in post-war German history. Having just rounded the first 100 days in office\, how are Chancellor Merz and his “Grand Coalition” of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats faring? \nJoin us for a discussion with political scientist Hans Kundnani on how Chancellor Merz has navigated the challenges of governing amid global uncertainty\, domestic pressures\, and shifting alliances. We will also examine the government’s key policy initiatives – from economic reform and energy security to defense commitments and European cooperation.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F6017558762672%2FWN_5DGOheQrShOU72Z3MHmJcw” css=”.vc_custom_1755876300889{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Hans Kundnani is an Open Society Ideas Workshop Fellow and a Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics. He was previously the Director of the Europe Program at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House)\, a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States\, and Research Director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York University\, the New School\, and Göttingen University. He has taught at Boston University\, New York University and the Collège d’Europe. \nMr. Kundnani is the author of three books: Eurowhiteness. Culture\, Empire and Race in the European Project (London: Hurst\, 2023); The Paradox of German Power (London/New York: Hurst/Oxford University Press\, 2014)\, which has been translated into German\, Italian\, Japanese\, Korean and Spanish; and Utopia or Auschwitz. Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust (London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press\, 2009). He is a columnist for the New Statesman and also writes for other publications such as Dissent\, the Times Literary Supplement\, Foreign Affairs and Internationale Politik. Mr. Kundnani studied German and philosophy at Oxford University and journalism at Columbia University in New York\, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/assessing-the-first-100-days-of-the-merz-government/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250827T180000
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SUMMARY:Transformation through AI: Challenges and Opportunities for Germany
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a discussion and reception with Stephan Albani\, Member of the German Bundestag (CDU/CSU) and Deputy Chair of the Research\, Space\, and Technology Assessment Committee in the German Federal Parliament. \nStephan Albani has been a Member of the German Bundestag representing the Oldenburg-Ammerland constituency in Lower Saxony since 2013. He currently serves as the Deputy Chair of the Research\, Space\, and Technology Assessment Committee in the Bundestag\, as well as a Member of the Committee for Education\, Family\, Senior Citizens\, Women and Youth. He has previously chaired Parliamentary Friendship Groups for Relations with South-Eastern Europe\, Ireland\, and Egypt. Since 2018\, he also served as a board member at the federal level of the Small Business and Economic Union (MIT – Mittelstands und Wirtschaftsunion) associated with the CDU/CSU. Before being elected to the Bundestag\, Mr. Albani served as the Managing Director of several organizations related to hearing research. \nMr. Albani studied Physics at the University of Göttingen.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/transformation-through-ai-challenges-and-opportunities-for-germany/
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