FRANKFURT (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will visit Germany on Friday after canceling a visit last week due to Hurricane Milton hitting the U.S., German government sources told Reuters on Sunday.
Spiegel magazine had previously reported the new date, saying plans for meetings were already well advanced.
The sources said Biden's visit would not be in the nature of a formal state visit, but would be scaled down to accommodate ongoing joint work.
According to Spiegel magazine, official meetings with Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier were scheduled for next Friday. The talks would focus on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the report said.
Biden's cancellation of the originally planned trip quashed plans for a broader meeting of the so-called Ramstein group of Ukrainian arms donors as part of his stay in Germany, where possible new aid pledges to Ukraine would have been discussed.
(Reporting by Andreas Rinke; Writing by Vera Eckert; Editing by Frances Kerry)
