At the occasion of BICC’s 20th anniversary, on 27th October 2014 a well attended public panel discussion titled “The new German foreign policy: responsibility and interests” was conducted at Uni Club Bonn by Corinna Hauswedell. Discussants were: Gernot Erler MdB, Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rupert Neudeck, Journalist, and Chair of the Peace Corps Green Helmets e.V., General, ret. Egon Ramms, and Conrad Schetter, Director for Research, BICC.