09:30 Meeting of EU energy ministers on the expansion of Europe’s electricity grid and exchange of views with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the link between energy and security, Brussels
09:45 Meeting of EU foreign ministers on the Ukraine war, the situation in the Middle East and Syria, and EU relations with China, Brussels
10:30 Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Minister for Economic Affairs Katherina Reiche, Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Reem Alabali-Radovan and Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister Julia Svyrydenko at the German-Ukrainian Economic Forum, Berlin
11:00 Minister for Economic Affairs Katherina Reiche and Lower Saxony’s Minister-President Olaf Lies on the future of Meyer Werft, Berlin
11:15 Minister of Agriculture Alois Rainer receives the Peace Light 2025 from the Ring of German Scout Associations, Berlin
12:00 Bundesbank on cash acceptance and the development of the payment card market in Germany, Frankfurt am Main
12:45 Baden-Württemberg’s Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann and Deutsche Bahn CEO Evelyn Palla at the steering committee meeting for the Stuttgart 21 rail project, Stuttgart
14:00 Enquête Commission on the Corona Pandemic with former Health Minister Jens Spahn and special investigator Margaretha Sudhof, Berlin
16:00 State Secretary at the BMFTR Rolf-Dieter Jungk at the Research Dialogue on Water Management, Representation of Hamburg, Berlin
17:00 Minister for Economic Affairs Katherina Reiche travels to Israel
17:15 Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ahead of consultations with Western leaders and EU and NATO heads, Chancellery, Berlin
19:00 Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at an Advent soirée, Bellevue Palace, Berlin