Because of Hurricane Milton, US President Biden canceled his planned trip to Germany last week. According to reports, he wants to catch up on Friday.
US President Joe Biden wants to make up for his canceled visit to Germany next Friday. This is reported by the Reuters news agency from government circles and the Spiegel.
Instead of the state visit, a significantly scaled-down working visit is now planned. The originally planned Ramstein meeting of Western heads of state and government to support Ukraine should not be rescheduled in view of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj’s recent European tour.
“Spiegel” had previously reported on the rescheduled date. Accordingly, planning for the visit to Berlin is already underway behind the scenes at the federal government and the security authorities.
Cancellation due to hurricane
Biden postponed his visit to Germany because of Hurricane Milton, which hit Florida last week. “Given the predicted path and strength of the hurricane,” the president will postpone his trip to Germany and Angola and work to oversee preparations for the storm, the White House said in a statement in Washington.
Biden had previously come under pressure over his handling of Hurricane Helene. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused the Democrat and his deputy Kamala Harris of not doing enough for the storm victims.
It would have been Biden’s first bilateral visit to Germany in his almost four-year term in office. Meetings with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), among others, were planned in Berlin.