Biden to visit Germany to make up for trip cancelled due to hurricane
US President Joe Biden to make his first bilateral visit to Germany in his four-year term of office
US President Joe Biden is expected to visit Germany later this week, a government source said Sunday, after a previously planned trip was cancelled due to Hurricane Milton.
“He’s coming to Berlin on Friday” for a one-day visit, the source said.
According to German media reports Biden will meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, with the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East expected to be high on his agenda.
This will be Biden’s first bilateral visit to Germany in his four-year term of office, and is seen as a farewell meeting by the outgoing US leader.
Although Biden attended the G7 summit in Elmau in 2022 and made refuelling stops with his government plane at the American military base in Ramstein on other occasions, he did not make a solo trip to Germany.
Biden’s original visit to Germany was to have taken place between October 10 and 12 and to have included a four-way summit with Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.