09:00 Bundestag with government statement by Chancellor Friedrich Merz on foreign policy; current hour on the Mercosur Agreement, resilience of critical infrastructure, reduction of bureaucracy for banks, Bundeswehr mission in Iraq, cross-border exchange of electronic evidence, and punishment of espionage activities, Berlin
10:30 EU Foreign Ministers’ meeting on new sanctions against Iran, the Greenland conflict, and the situation in the Middle East and Ukraine, Brussels
11:00 Minister for Research Dorothee Bär and Minister of Health Nina Warken at the handover ceremony of the presidency of the Conference of Science Ministers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s Minister for Science Bettina Martin to Bavaria’s Minister for Science Markus Blume, Representation of the State of Bavaria, Berlin
12:00 Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth Mareike Wulf at the Red Hand Day ceremony, leaving a handprint as a visible sign against the use of children as soldiers, Paul Löbe House, Berlin
12:00 European Commission presents strategy for asylum and migration policy, Brussels
13:00 Chancellor Friedrich Merz receives Lithuania’s Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene, Federal Chancellery, Berlin
13:00 State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas Markus Schick visits the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, Bonn
14:00 Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on the COVID-19 pandemic with former Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, former Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, and former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution Hans-Georg Maaßen, Berlin
15:45 Minister of Labour Bärbel Bas at the Social Welfare State Conference organized by the DGB Federal Executive Board and the Chambers of Labour, Representation of the State of Saarland, Berlin
16:30 Minister of Transport Patrick Schnieder and InfraGO CEO Philipp Nagl sign financing agreements for new and upgraded rail projects, Federal Ministry of Transport (BMV), Berlin
17:00 Courtesy visit by Bundesrat President Andreas Bovenschulte to Bundestag President Julia Klöckner, Reichstag Building, Berlin
17:45 Bundestag President Julia Klöckner receives German-Israeli kidnapping victims of the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023, Reichstag Building, Berlin
18:30 Minister of Transport Patrick Schnieder at the New Year’s reception of the Association of the Railway Industry in Germany, BCC, Berlin
19:00 Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Reem Alabali Radovan at the opening of the exhibition “Photo of the Year”, Willy Brandt House, Berlin