The German parliamentarian Konstantin Kuhle, protagonist of the Naumann Chair
To start the Naumann Chair, a space for reflection generated by Ucema and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom within the common objectives for promoting the debate of ideas, humanistic training and the ideas of an open society, on Friday 8 at 5p.m. UCEMA will receive the German parliamentarian Konstantin Kuhle, who will provide some guidelines on public policies that have been developed in Germany facing the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact these have had at a social and political level as well as their implications for the democratic system.
The Naumann Chair is coordinated by Dr. Lars André Richter, representative of Naumann Argentina and Lic. Juan Manuel Agüero; project coordinator of the Foundation.
Konstantin Kuhle has been a member of the German Parliament for the FDP since 2017, a spokesman of the FDP bloc and since 2018 is Secretary General of the Lower Saxony party. He is a lawyer for the Bucerius Law School of Hamburg. From 2009 to 2014 he was a fellow of the German National Academic Foundation. In the area of internal politics, Kuhle campaigned for civil rights and the protection of data, especially in the digital world, calling for effective strategies to combat political extremism, structural changes in security authorities and a reform of federalism in the area of internal security. In the field of European politics, Kuhle is an advocate for a European federal state and also has strong pro-European positions.