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Andrew Light Speaker Tour in Europe May 14, 2013 / Berlin, Germany; Brussels, BelgiumGMF Senior Fellow Andrew Light participated in a speaking tour in Europe to discuss opportunities for transatlantic cooperation on climate and energy policy in the second Obama administration.
In this podcast, GMF Vice President of Programs Ivan Vejvoda discusses last month's historic agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Anchor Elaine Reyes speaks with Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow of the Asia Program for the German Marshall Fund, about Beijing's potential role in brokering peace between Israel and Palestine
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Professor says German-American relations on mend May 17, 2006 / Berlin
On May 17, Johns Hopkins University professor and GMF Transatlantic Fellow Stephen Szabo delivered a lecture — "Mending Ways or Parting Ways? Prospects for German-American Relations" — in which he said that Germany and the United States have moved past the Iraq debate and have started rebuilding the transatlantic alliance.
GMF Berlin, in cooperation with the Hertie School of Governance, where Szabo is also a visiting professor, hosted the lecture, which was attended by about 70 people. Rolf Nikel, Deputy Director for Foreign Affairs, Security Policy, and Global Issues at the German Federal Chancellery served as a respondent.
Szabo stressed that we have passed the 2002-2003 crisis and are now on the way out, reconstructing the transatlantic alliance. On Iran, he said he believes that Germany and the United States are on the right track today, but emphasized that the stakes could not be higher and a failure would have damaging consequences for the transatlantic relationship. The German-American relationship is now "less about Europe and more about common approaches to larger global issues."
Given the political situation in Europe — especially in France, the U.K. and Italy — Merkel will likely be the major leader of European, and not just German, foreign policy for the next two to three years, Szabo said. She, therefore, carries not only the responsibility of representing Germany but Europe as well.
