Janet Yellen, Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, was joined at the AFL-CIO by Matthias Machnig, the minister of economy for the German Federal State of Thuringia for a discussion on restoring prosperity and full employment.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed hundreds at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on the state of the eurozone. She said “considerable progress” was being made in solving the crisis, but eurozone countries must implement the structural reforms needed to reduce government debt levels.

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Alexis Tsipras, Leader of the Greek Syriza party, discussed the economy of Greece and Europe at the Brookings Instutition.The Syriza party, a left-leaning Greek political party, is currently in opposition to Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his center-right New Democracy party.

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The global economic outlook has improved, according to the head of the IMF Christine Lagarde. At her press conference in Washington on Thursday, she added “We stopped the collapse. We should avoid a relapse. It’s not time to relax”.  Lagarde assessed the state of the global economy, emerging markets and the need for sustained growth.

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The former U.S. Ambassador to European Union, the former Afghan Ambassador to the U.S., and the former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan Wednesday took part in a panel discussion in Washington on the future of Afghanistan. The defense policy leaders examined the current state of Afghanistan and the next phase leading up to and after the 2014 withdrawal of most U.S. and coalition combat forces.

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Hillary Clinton delivered the keynote and Tom Donilon delivered the luncheon address at an event co-hosted by Foreign Policy Magazine and the U.S. State Department.

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The President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz will speak about the prospects for a renewed EU-U.S. partnership and the state of the Eurozone in an address at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

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Bono delivered a keynote address at an event hosted by a partnership between the Global Social Enterprise Initiative (GSEI) at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business and Bank of America, the initiative's founding partner.

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Matias Rodriguez Inciarte, Vice Chairman of Banco Santander, discussed the Spanish bank's successful negotiation of the financial crisis unsettling the euro zone. He spoke at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

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Speakers from government agencies and industry groups discuss the problem of counterfeit drugs in America's drug supply and the measures that are being taken to eliminate them.

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