Germany’s Election 2021: Political Wrap Up

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the internet privacy and data security protocols of Germany, this program WILL NOT be recorded.On Sunday September 26 Germans will cast their ballot and the Parliament will usher in a new Chancellor, as Angela Merkel is not running for reelection following 16 years in the country’s top job.
In addition, given the country’s electoral system, it seems certain that the new government will be comprised of a coalition of at least two, if not three, parties.
Both of these factors will have major implications for Germany’s future policies, in particular in the fields of foreign and climate change policy.

On October 20, Classrooms Without Borders in partnership with Germany Close Up will present a political wrap up of the 2021 election and discuss these issues, and more
We will be joined by Cerstin Gammelin, Deputy Editor for Economic Policy in the Parliamentary Office Berlin and Prof. Dr. Roland Sturm, Senior Fellow at IParl (Institut für Parlamentarismusforschung), moderated by Dr. Kaleen Gallagher. They will discuss first hand insights into the results and what can be expected from the new government.
Cerstin Gammelin, Deputy Editor for Economic Policy in the Parliamentary Office Berlin of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
Cerstin Gammelin completed her degree course in material-technology at the Technical University in Chemnitz (Saxony). After the fall of the Berlin Wall she worked as an author and a journalist for the publishing house “Deutscher Fachverlag”, the fold newspaper “Energie & Management”, the “Spiegel” and “Financial Times Deutschland”. From 2004 to 2007 she worked as a correspondent for the biggest German weekly “Die Zeit”. From 2008 to 2015 she was European correspondent of “Süddeutsche Zeitung” in Brussels. Since 2015 she leads the economic department of the parliament office in Berlin.

Prof. Dr. Roland Sturm, Senior Fellow at IParl (Institut für Parlamentarismusforschung), holds the chair of German and Comparative Politics, European Studies and Political Economy at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg since 1996. He is co-editor of the journals „Gesellschaft-Wirtschaft-Politik“ and „Zeitschrift für Politik“. His scientific work deals with policy research, the political system of the United Kingdom and federalism and multi-level democracy within the European Union. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Washington (Seattle), the Peking University and the University Pompeu Fabre (Barcelona).

Dr. Kaleen Gallagher grew up in the United States. She studied German and French at the University of Cambridge and completed a doctorate in German literature. She has lived in Germany since 2012 and works in the field of political education and as a freelance translator.

This midday event is geared toward both Educators and Students. There will be ample time for Q & A.

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