Three out of more than 1,300 international journalists who work as foreign correspondents in Berlin answer the question: How do you see German unity and Germany 20 years after reunification?more
What role does German play in today’s world? Prof. Ulrich Ammon, a distinguished sociolinguist, examines the position of the German language in business, science, politics – and on the Internetmore
The Federal Foreign Office and its partners want to inspire more young people abroad to learn German – with the “German – Language of Ideas” initiativemore
The 27 member states of the European Union signed and sealed the Eastern Partnership in May 2009. The initiative aims to provide support for six countries in eastern Europe and the Caucasus regionmore
The Heinz Schwarzkopf Foundation in Berlin inspires young people about Europe through discussions with prominent personalities, scholarships and prizes for involvement in Europemore
The struggle for freedom in Hungary, Poland and the then Czechoslovakia set processes in motion in Europe that played a major part in the epoch-making changes of 1989. A look back in timemore
The introduction of the single European currency in 1999 represented the beginning of a new era in the European Union’s history. Today the euro is a model for other regions in the worldmore
Critics say that the EU is too abstract. Not so, says Eckart Stratenschulte, director of the European Academy in Berlin. “That’s exactly what we have to get across to people.” And that’s his missionmore
The Franco-German Institute (dfi) is Germany’s top address for research on France. For 60 years its staff have focused on Germany’s neighbour and relations between the two countriesmore
EULEX is the largest civilian EU mission in the history of its common foreign and security policy. The EU is sending almost 2,000 specialists to the new state of Kosovomore
The innovations of the Reform Treaty include greater rights for the European Parliament, the Citizens’ Initiative and a strengthening of the common foreign policymore