Let us bid farewell to the old year and turn to the New Year 2025. We will toast to this at the Diplomatic Council's New Year's Reception on 5 February in Frankfurt.
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New Year's reception "Europe and the Emerging New Global Order"
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Warsaw Security Forum 2024
A report from the scene by Jochen Richter, Chairman Diplomatic Council Global Security Forum
This year's edition, the 11th, was of course centred around defence but also the global outlook. Besides this there were parallel tracks about energy and resilience.
As with any conference there were the official panels and speeches but the more important talks during breaks etc. And here one got the differences in views.
What could be some sort of conclusions?
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European carmakers lack innovation
by Diplomatic Council member Karlheinz Zuerl*
The crisis at Volkswagen and other European carmakers is largely homemade. For many years, European industry has not been innovative enough compared to China. And this applies not only to the automotive sector. Here are concrete examples from the Chinese automotive industry.
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Global Energy Summit 2024
The Global Energy Summit Spring 2024 was organized as a public panel discussion chaired by Felix Zuckschwerdt, Head of Mission for East and Southern Africa at the Diplomatic Council. Invited panellists: Vandre Spellmeier, German-Angolan Hydrogen Office, H2 diplo (Angola), Frank Obrist, CEO & Founder, Obrist Group (Germany/Austria), Thomas Wu, Board Member, DSE Green Technology Holdings (Proprietary) Ltd (Namibia), Jonathan Metcalfe, Business Development, Enertrag South Africa (South Africa), Joel Vogl, CEO & Co-Founder, Infener AG (Switzerland), Dr.
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DC Summer Celebration with Japan on August 28
This year's Diplomatic Council (DC) Summer Celebration with Japan as partner country will take place on August 28.
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A report from the UN Commission on Crime Prevention
Impressions from visiting the United Nations conference on crime prevention
By DC Member Jochen M. Richter
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DC Spring Festival with India: digital, democracy and mango
India is now the fastest growing major economic power and the fifth largest in the world. This means that the country has worked its way up from tenth to fifth place within ten years. The current growth rate is 7.2 percent. India aims to become the third largest economic power in the world by 2028 at the latest. The country's comprehensive digitalization is a crucial foundation for this brilliant development. And the population will benefit massively from this strategy. These were the key messages with which the Indian Consul General M.S.
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Global Methanol Economy at the UN
Energy issues at the 26th UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development in Geneva: The Diplomatic Council proposes the transition to a global methanol economy.
Advantages of Green Methanol
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Western management style does not work in China
by Diplomatic Council member Karlheinz Zuerl, CEO GTEC
Many Western managers stand in their own way when it comes to management tasks in China and often don't even realize it. The management style common in Europe or the USA is met with incomprehension by the Chinese and often causes fear and resistance. This starts when a manager who has flown in thinks he has to show who is in charge and where things are going right from the start. Sometimes a single meeting is enough to trigger an internal rebellion in an entire company.
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Many SMEs are still "light years away" from AI
By DC member Jane Enny van Lambalgen, CEO Planet Industrial Excellence
Many SMEs are light years away from a corporate strategy for the introduction of artificial intelligence. In fact, there are many SMEs that have only made necessary replacement investments over the years and hardly any modernization investments. Many companies have simply lacked the financial resources to do so.