Since June 1, 2021, there has been, for the first time, an EU Youth Coordinator in the person of Biliana Sirakova. The creation of this new position is one of the central points of the EU Youth Strategy, which aims to support young people to engage and become active citizens (…)
Since mid-September 2022, thousands of people in Iran have been protesting against the Iranian regime with the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom". The protests began with the death by police violence of the Iranian Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amin, a 22-year-old woman who was arrested by the morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating the state's Hijāb law. Together with you and Sanaz Azimipour, co-founder of the Women* Life Freedom Collective Berlin, which has so far organised the largest demonstration against the Iranian regime outside Iran, we will talk about the current situation in Iran and more.
The Parliament of Georgia, after initially passing the draft law “On Transparency of Foreign Influence” despite public opposition and international apprehension, ultimately decided to reject the law on March 10th following several days of protests by thousands of citizens in Tbilisi. The proposed bill had been widely criticised for restricting (…)
Germany is dependent on the immigration of foreign skilled workers. The Federal Government now wants to intensify its efforts in this regard and further develop the Skilled Workers Immigration Act. But who is allowed to come, how can good cooperation be achieved and is Germany at all attractive for skilled (…)
With the opening of the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide in Brandenburg in March 2022, an important and future-oriented global corporation has settled in Brandenburg, underlining Brandenburg's ambitions as an attractive industrial location. At the same time, the coal region of Brandenburg's Lausitz is in the midst of a structural transformation away from the coal industry, which has become even more topical with the decision to phase out coal energy by 2038 at the latest. We are pleased to welcome Matthias Platzeck, former Minister President of Brandenburg, as our guest on 09.03.2023 at 17:30. Together with you and Matthias Platzeck, we would like to discuss structural transformation in Brandenburg.
In view of multiple current crises, cultural policy is confronted with the question of what role cultural institutions and cultural organisers can and should play in times of such crises, and how cultural policy can support them in this. Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and Media, will be our guest on this topic on 6 March 2023.
