There is good feedback about this "interesting topic" and hence, we hope many people, rotarians and non-rotarians, will come and listen to Jules.
A short background. All political foundations
(Friedrich Naumann Foundation/FNF, Friedrich Ebert Foundation/FEF, Konrad
Adenauer Foundation/KAF, Hans Seidel Foundation/HSF,...) are affiliated with
German political parties. FNF is affiliated with the Free Democratic Party
(FDP, liberals and democrats); FEF is affiliated with the social democrats and
socialists; KAF is affiliated with the Christian Democrats, the party in power
by Angela Merkel, and so on.
These political foundations get their funding
from their political party affiliation in Germany. Thus, the bigger the votes
achieved by the political party, the bigger is the funding of their political foundation.
That makes KAF having lots of money.
The goal of those pol. foundations is to
conduct political education worldwide related to their respective political
philosophy. Thus, FNF is promoting liberalism and free market, FEF is promoting
welfarism and implicit socialism.
German politics is important because
Germany is the biggest economy in Europe. Thus, policies by the ruling party or
coalition largely determine the direction of the German economy and foreign
policy. Like how to deal with the public debt crisis of Portugal-Ireland-Greece-Spain
(PIGS), the future of the Euro currency, the Ukraine-Russia conflict, and so
on.
As usual, no registration fee, people will just pay for their own meals and drinks. Hope to see you there, Manila-based readers. Thanks.
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See also:
German Elections 2013: Big Defeat for the FDP, September 23, 2013
Pol. Ideology 51: Liberalism is Not Welfarism, September 17, 2013
Pol. Ideology 52: What is the Main Purpose of Government?, October 29, 2013
EFN Asia 35: Rainer Adam and Economic Freedom in Asia, March 11, 2014
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