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The article discusses a conference about the Congress of Vienna (Vienna, Austria) held in Bonn, Germany, from November 27-28, 2015. The event was organized by several associations including the Gesellschaft für Internationalen Kulturaustausch und Politische Bildung e.V. (GIK) and the Deutsch-Ägyptische Gesellschaft Bonn-Kairo e.V. and focused on topics including France's and Great Britain's role, Prussia and Rhineland (Germany), and the Congress's influence on the development of the Egyptian State.

The article presents a report from a June 14-16, 2012 conference in Tübingen, Germany on European history surrounding the year 1812 on the 200th anniversary of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's Russian campaign. Topics of presentations given included French-Russian relations prior to 1812, Theodor Fontane's book "Vor dem Sturm," and the novel "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy and its 2007 film adaption by Robert Dornhelm.

The founding of the Union for the Mediterranean in summer 2008 envisaged enhancing Euro-Mediterranean cooperation by focussing on concrete projects. This was combined with the hope to depoliticize Euro-Mediterranean relations, thereby reducing the negative consequences of conflicts among participants. Contrary to this intention, an opposite tendency of continuing politicization can be identified on various levels of Euro-Mediterranean relations. This article focuses on the reasons for this development and points to central elements that continue to hamper cooperation under the presidency of France and Egypt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]