German Political Culture Changes and New Challenges A Lecture by Karsten Voigt

Starts:
5:15 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Ends:
7:00 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2019
URL:
http://www.bu.edu/european/news/calendar/?eid=224771
Address:
Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering (CILSE), 610 Commonwealth Avenue
Contact Organization:
Center for the Study of Europe
Contact Name:
Elizabeth Amrien
Contact Phone:
617-358-0919
Fees:
free
Speakers:
Karsten Voigt
Audience:
public
Karsten D. Voigt is a former member of the German Bundestag and served as the Coordinator of German-North American Cooperation at the Foreign Office of Germany from 1999 to 2010. He also served as Vice-President (1992-1994) and then President (1994-1996) of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO. From 1976 to 1998, he was a member of the German Bundestag, where he served as Foreign Policy Speaker of the Socialdemocratic fraction from 1983 to 1998. For many years he was Chairman of the German-Soviet, and later the German-Russian parliamentary group. Voigt is a board member of Aspen Germany and a Senior Associate fellow and member of the presidium of the German Council on Foreign Policy.