youS President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden served as judges during the visit Angela Merkel A dinner for the outgoing prime minister will be held at the White House next Thursday. According to the US President’s weekly program announced by the White House on Sunday evening, Merkel’s husband Joachim Sauer will also attend the dinner.
Prior to this, Merkel and Biden will hold bilateral discussions, extended meetings and joint press conferences on Thursday. Merkel is the first European head of government that Biden has met at the White House since he took office in January.
Biden hopes to discuss controversial North Stream 2 Baltic pipeline with Merkel
Biden wants the one under his predecessor Donald Trump Repair severely strained relations with Germany. According to the White House, the German-Russian North Stream 2 pipeline will also be resolved in the meeting with Merkel. The governments of Washington and Berlin are trying to reach a compromise on this issue. “We still believe that this is a bad agreement that brings about global problems,” White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Friday.
In addition, it should be about climate change, fighting the coronavirus pandemic, relations with China and Russia, and many other topics.
Biden’s weekly program stated that Merkel’s work visit “will reaffirm the deep and lasting bilateral relationship between the United States and Germany.” For Merkel, this should be his last visit to the United States as prime minister. She will no longer participate in the federal elections at the end of September. The last time Merkel was in the White House was in April 2018, when Trump was still president.
