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Transforming Industrial Regions Symposium

PAST EVENT

Through original research and convenings, the Chicago Council partnered with organizations across the transatlantic space to discuss revitalizing industrial regions in North America and Europe.

Exterior view of an industrial factory
Peter Heinsius

New Transatlantic Perspectives on Global Challenges

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As the world starts to move beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, experts discuss joint EU-US responses to the digital revolution and growing Chinese global influence.

President Biden addressing the European Parliament in Brussels
REUTERS

Discussion Table with French Ambassador Philippe Etienne

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President’s Club and leadership members are invited to engage in a Discussion Table with the Ambassador of France to the United States on ranging global issues.

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with presidential diplomatic advisor Philippe Etienne.
Reuters

YP In-Depth on Asylum

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YP In-Depth

Members of the Council’s Young Professionals Network are invited to join Sarah Pierce of Migration Policy Institute to examine asylum in the US.

Demonstrators hold signs saying "Home is Here" outside the U.S. Supreme Court
Reuters

The Emerging Autocracies of Europe

PAST EVENT VIDEO

Hungary and Poland’s shift toward authoritarianism may have implications for democracy in the region and beyond.

Hungarian opposition rallies against Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Reuters

Inside Russia's Protest Movement

PAST EVENT VIDEO

Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov talk with CNN's Nathan Hodge about Russia's political opposition movement after the detention of Alexei Navalny.

Russian law enforcement officers stand guard in Saint Petersburg
Reuters

Athlete Activists Advancing Social and Political Change

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Women, Equity, and Global Development Forum

In the lead up to the Tokyo Olympic Games, athlete activists are taking action to promote the causes and issues they care about on the global stage.

Japan's Sayaka Murakami during the Women's Long Jump at the World Para Athletics 2019
REUTERS/Christopher Pike

The Future of the US-UK 'Special Relationship'

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Seventy-five years after Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech, a panel of experts discusses the features and challenges that define the UK-US relationship.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson watching President Joe Biden's Inauguration
Pippa Fowles | No 10 Downing Street

Building Gender Equality Through Inclusive Foreign Policy

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Women, Equity, and Global Development Forum

In honor of International Women’s Day, experts analyze why building a more gender-equal world through feminist foreign policy is key to pandemic recovery.

French President Macron holds consultative talks ahead of G7 summit meeting in Paris
Reuters

The Race to Destroy Syria's Deadliest Weapons

PAST EVENT VIDEO

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Joby Warrick describes the chaotic consequences of America's largely unknown efforts to find and destroy Syria's vast chemical weapons stockpile.

U.N. chemical weapons experts prepare before collecting samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Zamalka
Reuters