In the evening of June 5, 2018, Ms. Claire Demesmay (PhD) from the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) visited the International House of Freie Universität. There she talked to Master and PhD students from the ZDS Peking about current developments in the European Union: "Which Future for the EU? Contentious Issues and Convergences". For the PhD students, her talk served as an introduction to the PhD summer school "Germany and Poland in Europe. Past and Present" which was organized in cooperation with the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies (WBZ) at the University Wrocław and took place from June 7 until June 15 in Wrocław.