08:30 Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the EU summit, Brussels​

09:00 Bundestag debate on the Investment Location Promotion Act, the Act against Unfair Competition, stabilisation of statutory health insurance contributions, counter-terrorism and crime prevention, and a Current Hour on the “Digital Services Act”, Berlin​

10:00 Bundesrat on the 2026 federal budget, the pension package, military service, reduced VAT for gastronomy/commuter allowance, and a ban on laughing gas and date rape drugs, Berlin​

10:00 Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier accredits the new ambassadors from Indonesia, Abdul Kadir Jailani, Comoros, Mohamed Chatur Badaoui, and São Tomé and Príncipe, José Cardoso dos Ramos Cassandra, Bellevue Palace, Berlin​

11:00 Minister of Agriculture Alois Rainer receives the chairman of the Federal Association for Agricultural Game Farming, Karl-Heinz Funke, Berlin​

14:00 Decision on the successor to Norbert Lammert as head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin​

19:15 Berlin’s Governing Mayor Kai Wegner at a memorial service for the attack on the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin​

Saturday
17:00 Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Saxony-Anhalt’s Minister-President Reiner Haseloff and Magdeburg’s Lord Mayor Simone Borris at the commemoration day for the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market​