Starmer arrives Germany in first visit as British PM
Keir Starmer arrives in Germany on Wednesday for his first visit as Britain’s Prime Minister, seven weeks after taking office.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz will receive Starmer, the head of the British Labour Party, with military honours outside the Chancellery in the German capital on Wednesday morning.
The two centre-left politicians have met twice since Mr Starmer took office in early July at the NATO summit in Washington and the European Political Community Summit in England.
His visit aims to give new impetus to German-British relations.
Mr Starmer’s conservative predecessor, Rishi Sunak, waited 18 months before making his inaugural visit to Berlin in April of this year.
At the time, Messrs Sunak and Scholz agreed on a joint declaration to deepen cooperation in the areas of security and defence.
Britain left the European Union in 2020 but, like Germany, is a member of NATO, the G7 group of industrial democracies and the G20 group of the world’s biggest economic powers.
(dpa/NAN)
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