More Europe - For a New Culture in European Foreign Policy

The series Debate on Europe ("Reden über Europa") continues in 2012. The next panel discussion on 2 May 2012 at Allianz Forum Berlin questions the EU's cultural self-conception and the core values of its future foreign policy. In cooperation with More Europe, an initiative of European cultural institutes and foundations.

"We are Europe's new generation"

The EU financial crisis poses a real challenge for politicians and economic experts - good advice is hard to come by and in great demand. But the 27 students from five European universities who accepted the invitation to the Allianz Summer Academy were brimming with good ideas and potential solutions.

Climate policy failed - straight ahead into the catastrophe?

In the run-up to the world Climate Change Conference in Cancún, experts discuss what will happen if the talks fail and suggest alternatives to the blocking policies pursued by many governments. Despite the gloomiest global warming predictions made by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coming true with devastating effect, the countries represented on it still appear incapable of making a concerted effort to combat the problem.

How much for the Mona Lisa?

Georg Freiherr von Gumppenberg, Head of Art Insurance at Allianz, explains how to professionally protect and insure valuable works of art today, and why stealing unique collector's items often doesn't pay. Even if the thief appears to have got away with it.

European students discuss globalization

"Europe and globalization" was the topic of this year's Allianz Summer Academy. From July 23 - 27, students from throughout Europe were guests of the Allianz Management Institute near Munich.

PIMCO sponsors Terra Cotta Warriors exhibit in California

While much of the world will be focused on modern-day China during the Beijing Olympics this summer, a new exhibit, sponsored by PIMCO in California, provides a glimpse of the dawn of one of the world’s oldest cultures.

Anna Amalia Library to reopen soon

The historic Anna Amalia Library in Weimar is just about to reopen – three years after a devastating fire, the Rococo interior has been restored. The Allianz Cultural Foundation made an important contribution, and is also supporting other projects to help make this historic location available to all.

George Soros: "I hope we keep working together"

At the 52nd Venice Biennale, the Allianz Cultural Foundation is supporting the first transnational pavilion with 16 Roma artists from seven countries. "Paradise Lost" was initiated by the Open Society Institute. Allianz.com News interviewed its founder and chairman, the global financier George Soros.

MIT architect is new Allianz fellow

Nasser Rabbat is the eighth Allianz guest professor for Islamic and Jewish studies at Munich's Ludwig-Maximilian University. In Munich, the Aga Khan Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) teaches and researches the architecture of the Sunni Umayyads.