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New Leadership Team for Europe
The top posts created by the Lisbon treaty will be filled on the basis of political agreement reached unanimously at the informal meeting of EU heads of state and government on 19 November in Brussels. Herman Van Rompuy will leave his post of Belgian Prime Minister to become the President of the European Council.
Catherine Ashton, currently in charge of trade in the European Commission, will take up the post of High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. She will chair the meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and will hold the post of Vice-President of the European Commission.
Education Fair "Studying in Europe"
Did you know that Germany has over 350 institutions of higher education? Or that many German universities offer degree courses that are taught in English? Maybe you knew that Germany is the world’s third most popular study destination for international students? Did we get you interested? Then come and visit us at the German booth at the ‘Study in Europe’ Education Fair. The DAAD team will be joined by a representative of the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg.
Talks on “Studying in Germany” will be held in the Hilton Hotel on Saturday, 5 December 2009 at 10.30am and 3.30pm.
www.StudyinEurope.sg
When the representatives from over 190 countries meet in December 2009 in Copenhagen at the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15), they will be focusing on the future of our planet. In the Danish capital the delegates will negotiate a new, binding international agreement on climate protection designed to succeed the present Kyoto Protocol in 2013. Many of the data used by the experts come from Bonn.
climate crisis
Solving the Climate Crisis
In December 2009 the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference will decide on a new international climate protection agreement. The goal is to put a stop to dangerous global warming. Deutschlandmagazine presents a special feature on the subjects of environment, climate and energy.
The German Academy of Natural Scientists “Leopoldina” in Halle an der Saale – named as Germany’s National Academy of Sciences a year ago – is celebrating its first anniversary in 2009.
Germany’s National Academy
Herta Müller is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
German author Herta Müller, her works once banned under the Romanian dictatorship, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009. Müller, the thirteenth German-language author to be awarded the Literature Nobel, received the news in Berlin, where she now lives. In announcing the prize on October 8, the Swedish Academy said that Müller "with the concentration of poetry and the franknes of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."
Living Together in Germany
Improving the integration of immigrants
Diversity enriches a society, but it can also cause friction. Many efforts are currently being undertaken in Germany to improve the integration of immigrants. Language and education in particular are key ways of gaining a feeling of belonging and for success in a career, in short: for integration.
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