Posts tagged with Global Governance

Press Release: The ZEIT-Stiftung Receives 1 Million Euros to Implement Program for Immigrant Children

The ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius’ new program WEICHENSTELLUNG (“setting the course”) will receive EUR 1 million from the German Ministry of Family Affairs to support the integration of immigrant children into German society. Under the program “Menschen stärken Menschen” (“people strengthen people”), the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs has granted the ZEIT-Stiftung 1 million Read More

China’s Disgrace

Beijing reacts with helpless anger to North Korea’s new nuclear test. How long can China stand by and watch Kim Jong-un’s nuclear megalomania? By Matthias Nass It was probably not a hydrogen bomb that North Korea tested on January 6th; the force of the subterranean explosion was too weak. Instead, Dictator Kim Jong-un is alleged Read More

On the Current State of Transatlantic Relations, by Theo Sommer

On January 12th, 2016 Theo Sommer, Editor-at-Large for DIE ZEIT, spoke to American Friends of Bucerius and American Council on Germany program alumni. Below is a transcript of his speech as originally written. All opinions expressed belong to the author, and do not reflect the values or opinions of the Bucerius family of institutions. Forty-five Read More

Watch the Video: Helmut Schmidt: The Life and Legacy of a Statesman

Did you miss the program in DC? You can watch the video now! Click here (note: you will be taken to an external website). Welcoming Remarks Karen Donfried, President, The German Marshall Fund of the United States Panel Discussants Henry Kissinger, Former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Theo Sommer, Former Editor and Read More

Turkey, Russia, and Syria: An Interview with Kemal Kirisci, Brookings Institution

Listen to an interview with Kemal Kirisci, TÜSİAD Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on the United States and Europe’s Turkey Project at Brookings Institution. Topics covered during his conversation with Melis Tusiray, Director of Programs at American Friends of Bucerius, include Turkey’s ongoing conflict with Russia, the latest developments in the Syrian Refugee Crisis, and the Read More

A Duty to Help

France is Germany’s closest ally. Not to stand by it would undermine the foundations of the European Union. By Matthias Nass Happy are those people who have a quick and easy answer for everything. Who know, for example, that the “Islamic State” can only be overcome by war. Or those who are adamant that Germany Read More

International Issues: ZEIT-Stiftung President and CEO Michael Goering on US/German Relations and the Refugee Crisis

Global news outlets have been awash in stories about the flood of immigrants and refugees arriving in Europe from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations in the Middle East and Africa. Government leaders in the US and Europe have been pressed into action by the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis and cries for compassion by Read More

ZEIT-Stiftung President and CEO Michael Göring joins German President’s Delegation to the US

German President Joachim Gauck visited Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. last week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of German re-unification. President and CEO of ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Michael Göring, was selected to be a member of the high-level delegation which accompanied President Gauck as he visited and spoke at several locations leading up to Read More

AFB President Participates in the BMW-Foundation Inseldialog (Island Dialogue)

The close German-American relations have been lost over the past few years. According to a study by the Transatlantic Task Force of the German Marshall Fund US, only 35% of Germans saw the US as a trustworthy partner in 2014. The NSA wiretapping scandal is only the preliminary point of alienation over the past years. Read More

Call for Research Proposals: Germany and the United States in the 21st Century

WASHINGTON – The Transatlantic Academy has announced that its ninth fellowship year, running from September 2016 to June 2017, will focus on the topic of ‘Germany and the United States in the 21st Century.’ Resident fellows will examine how the roles of Germany and the United States in Europe and the world are evolving and Read More