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Dec 2023
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How do young Germans view the United Sta...

Common Ground Berlin
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What Gen-Zers think of the United States is definitely not how their parents and grandparents view Germany’s important ally. So can student exchange programs help improve transatlantic relations?    


Host Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson and Senior Producer Dina Elsayed talk with the German Marshall Fund’s Gesine Weber and Niklas Ebert, as well as Knut Moeller of AJA, a Berlin-based, umbrella organization for long-term youth exchange programs in Germany, and with Christian Andersch of YFU – Germany.

 

This episode is brought to you by Checkpoint Charlie Foundation and was produced by Axel Scheele.

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