09:00 European Parliament with motion of no confidence against the European Commission, Strasbourg
09:30 Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the World Economic Forum, later Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto, and Syria’s President Ahmad Al Sharaa, Davos
09:30 Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul begins his Ethiopia trip with a visit to the Ethiopian Airlines cargo terminal, later meetings with the African Union and Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos, Addis Ababa
10:00 Minister for Family Affairs Karin Prien presents the new Pixi children’s book “Everyone Joins In!” on the right of children to inclusion, Berlin
10:30 U.S. President Donald Trump makes an announcement on the “Peace Council”, Davos
11:00 Minister of Agriculture Alois Rainer at the award ceremony for the Federal Organic Farming Competition 2026, Berlin Trade Fair
11:15 Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas Martina Englhardt-Kopf at the Agrifood.Table live briefing “Fair trading practices along the food value chain: What can politics do?”, Berlin
13:00 Association of German Cities on the municipal financial crisis and civil protection in times of crisis, Dresden
15:00 Minister for Family Affairs Karin Prien at the handover of the BMK presidency, Representation of the State of Bavaria, Berlin
17:00 Minister of Justice Stefanie Hubig at the DGB event “Shaping Society, Combating Discrimination”, Berlin
17:00 State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas Markus Schick at the Consumer Policy Forum of the Federation of German Consumer Organisations, Berlin
19:00 EU extraordinary summit on dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats, Brussels
19:00 Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Carsten Träger at the New Year’s reception of the Federal Association for Secondary Raw Materials and Waste Management, Nuremberg