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„Germany sovereign? vs. Europe sovereign?“
Date: Friday, 12 June 2026
Time: 7 pm - 10 pm (admission from 6.30 pm)
Location: Munich
Discussants:
- Prof Ulrike Guérot (publicist, bestselling author)
- Rüdiger Lucassen (Member of the German Bundestag, retired colonel)
On the subject:
The concept of sovereignty is experiencing a renaissance against the backdrop of global shifts in power. But can a state like Germany still be self-determined and capable of acting in today's world? How can Europe achieve strategic autonomy without relinquishing the self-determination of European nations?
Ulrike Guérot and Rüdiger Lucassen discuss the role of armed forces, the future of NATO and the question of whether Europe can compete with major powers such as the USA or China.
Why is our electricity so expensive?
Date: Friday, 12.6.2026
Time: 7 pm - 9 pm (admission from 6.30 pm)
Location: Frankfurt am Main
Speaker: Marco Pino
The energy crisis has Germany firmly in its grip. Whenever there is talk of plant closures, relocation of production and job cuts, high energy prices in general and high electricity costs in particular are at the top of the list of reasons. The fact is that Germany is one of the countries with the highest electricity prices in the world. In a multimedia presentation, journalist and film producer Marco Pino analyses the numerous factors that drive up our electricity prices and dispels the many myths.
Siegfried Lenz (*17.3.1926, †7.10.2014)
web seminar
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Time: 7 - 9 pm
Speaker: Helmut Seifen
Siegfried Lenz could have celebrated his 100th birthday on 17 March 2026. This is an opportunity to pay tribute to a writer who has been an important intellectual voice in the Federal Republic of Germany from the very beginning and who has already been honoured with numerous awards during his lifetime.
Unlike his fellow writers Böll and Grass, for example, his stories, novels and dramas are not about political systems, but always about the individual. In concrete situations, his characters often find themselves in an almost unbearable tension between their own moral principles and beliefs and public morality, public „duty“. Lenz understands like no other how to visualise this tense inner situation in narrative images and thus reveal to his readers the underlying fundamental human and moral questions.
Are our schools capitulating to imported problems?
web seminar
Date: Thursday, 21 May
Time: 7 - 9 pm
Speaker: Josef Kraus
There are two main reasons for the decline of the former educational nation of Germany: home-made and imported. The home-grown causes include egalitarianism and a disregard for achievement. Here we are talking about imported causes: Lack of education, language deficits and disregard for school rules as well as disdain for teaching staff and also submission to Islamic rules up to and including Sharia law.
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