A conversation with panelists from across Europe:

Germany

Peter Schneider, Journalist and author.

His articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Newsweek, Le Monde, Time, New Republic, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, La Repubblica among others.

Olivia Schoeller, U.S. Correspondent, Berliner Zeitung

Since January Olivia has served as Washington Correspondent for the Berliner Zeitung, the largest broadsheet newspaper in the German capital. Previously she was an editor on the foreign desk of the newspaper, covering the United States and Great Britain. Olivia has also served as a political correspondent for Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung and worked for the British Guardian and the Spanish daily ABC. She received her BA from Bard College in upstate New York in Political Science.

Italy

Federico Rampini, West Coast Editor and Pacific Rim Correspondent.

Federico Rampini is a senior columnist and West Coast correspondent of La Repubblica, based at the San Francisco bureau that he inaugurated in July 2000. In his previous assignments he was the European correspondent and the French correspondent in Paris. La Repubblica is the largest national newspaper in Italy, with a daily circulation of 800.000. As a writer he is the author of several acclaimed books on the European Union and the single currency.

France

Patrick Jarreau, Washington Bureau Chief, Le Monde.

Annette Levy-Willard, West Coast Bureau Chief, Libération

Annette has been a journalist at Libération since 1978. She has covered the Middle-East, Israel, Lebanon (1982-83), and the rise of the extreme-right wing in France etc. She also served as editor of the editorial pages and is now West Coast Bureau Chief (Los Angeles). Annette has also done investigative reporting for television, including The Other Face of Terror , the neo-nazis networks in Europe and USA (for TV : Channel 4 in England, NOS in Netherlands, France 2, PBS in the USA), The rise of Le Pen. (TF1) and The Klarsfeld family (TV5, 2003)

Great Britain

Godfrey Hodgson, Journalist and Former Director, The Reuter Foundation Programme for journalists at Oxford University.

Over his long career in journalism, Hodgson has served as reporter for the BBC, editor of The Sunday Times of London's "Insight" section, Washington correspondent for The Observer, and commentator on NPR. His work has also appeared in the Financial Times, the Washington Post, The Independent, The Guardian, the New York Times Magazine, and Atlantic Monthly. Hodgson is also the author of several books, including The Gentleman from New York: The Life of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Houghton Mifflin). He is working on a new book for the Century Foundation in New York called Prospering and Puzzled, a history of the U.S. since the resignation of Richard Nixon. (Princeton University Press/2004).

Moderated by:

Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism

Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley's Institute of European Studies and The World Affairs Council of Northern California.