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Green Party Member of the Bundestag Tobias Lindner has held a seat in the German Parliament since 2011 and became Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office in December 2021. On 25 and 26 March 2022, he took part in the 178th Bergedorf Round Table in Berlin to discuss Germany’s »Zeitenwende« – its watershed moment in foreign and security...

How is the current Russian military attack on Ukraine escorted by a "memory war"? Tatiana Zhurzhenko, Ukrainian expert on memory politics, deconstructs elements of the Russian propaganda, explains internal Ukrainian conflicts on memory and history, and asks about the war’s effects on European identity.

Elena Chernenko is special correspondent at the "Kommersant" newspaper in Moscow and member of the Munich Young Leaders network. In this interview she talks about the effects of the sanctions on Russian society and the difficult conditions for independent journalists.

Russia's war against Ukraine marks a “Zeitenwende” for Western security order. Can historical thinking help to analyze and solve current problems more clearly? The e-paper “European Security: How Policy-Relevant is History?” demonstrate how and where history can help us to better respond to the uncertainties of the present and how future political...

Europe is mirrored in Ukraine. That was the main point Karl Schlögel, historian of Central and Eastern Europe, already made at the opening of a conference hosted by Körber-Stiftung in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv in autumn 2019. Back then, he also already named all major driving factors of the current Russian war against Ukraine.

On 18 March 2022, Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, met with members of the German Bundestag, representatives of several ministries and experts from selected think tanks for a Political Breakfast at Körber-Stiftung.