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TODAY, Monday, July 6

Germany and Poland: Still Partners in the EU and the Transatlantic Community? [link removed]
Powered by AJC Berlin [link removed] and AJC Central Europe [link removed]
10:00 a.m. Eastern, 9:00 a.m. Central, 8:00 a.m. Mountain, 7:00 a.m. Pacific
Featuring:
Radek Sikorski, Member of European Parliament; Foreign Minister of Poland (2007-2014)
Roland Freudenstein, Policy Director, Martens Centre for European Studies
Moderated by Dr. Remko Leemhuis, Director, AJC Berlin and Sebastian Rejak, Acting Director, AJC Central Europe

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Polish-German relations have been visibly less intensive in recent years, with Poland shifting on key political positions in Brussels. At the same time, Warsaw has never attached greater importance to its relationship with Washington and NATO, intensifying transatlantic military cooperation. Berlin, in comparison, remains an EU leader, but it's no secret relations to the U.S. have been turbulent.


The differences are clear, but the strategic and political potential Germany and Poland share cannot be overlooked or downplayed. Will the efforts at positive neighborly relations both made in the early 1990s continue to develop? And how will this bilateral relationship affect building a renewed political architecture within the EU and NATO in an uncertain post-pandemic political reality?  

Inside Vatican Diplomacy: Antisemitism, Israel, and the Middle East [link removed]
12:00 p.m. Eastern, 11:00 a.m. Central, 10:00 a.m. Mountain, 9:00 a.m. Pacific

Featuring:
Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States of the Holy See (Vatican “foreign minister”)
Rabbi David Rosen [link removed], AJC Director, International Interreligious Affairs
Moderated by Lisa Palmieri-Billig [link removed], AJC Representative in Italy and Liaison to the Holy See

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After witnessing the absolute evil of the Shoah, the Vatican initiated a total turnabout and rebirth of relations with Jews and Judaism in the 1960s. AJC, an active partner in this accelerated process of reconciliation was the first American Jewish organization to have been granted a papal audience in the post Vatican II era, and continues to enjoy private papal audiences. Today, new heights of cooperation and solidarity based on common values have been reached. In order to discuss Vatican's relations with Israel, the call to cooperative action by the two States to quell the recent surge of antisemitism, and Vatican's relations with the Arab and Islamic world, its diplomatic strategies for achieving a global future of peace with a special focus on the Middle East, Vatican's Secretary of Relations between States (its "Foreign Minister"), Archbishop Paul Gallagher has graciously accepted to engage in an unprecedented public conversation with Rabbi David Rosen, AJC's International Director for Interreligious Affairs. Kindly email questions to [email protected]

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