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Daniela Schwarzer, Director, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), and Thierry de Montbrial, Founder and Executive Chairman, French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), will present and analyze the French and German responses to the COVID-19 crisis, with an eye on the Franco-German relationship and the European Union.
Chair: Karl Kaiser, Fellow with the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship.
This seminar is part of a series of events which explores COVID-19 from a transatlantic perspective. It is co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard.
This seminar will be conducted via Zoom.
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Co-sponsors: Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School; Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University
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Thierry de MONTBRIAL
Founder and Executive Chairman of Ifri - Member of the Institut de France (Académie des Sciences morales et politiques)
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