Outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is ready to go to Poland on Wednesday for a farewell assembly with Prime Minister Donald Tusk, specializing in German-Polish relations and European and worldwide points, in response to official info.
The announcement of Scholz’s go to final week was sudden.
For the reason that inaugural session on the finish of March of the brand new decrease home of the German parliament, the Bundestag, Scholz has been serving in a caretaker function. Overseas journeys are unusual within the closing section of a chancellor’s time period until they contain worldwide conferences.
Poland is presently within the midst of an election marketing campaign, with the primary spherical of the presidential election scheduled for Could 18.
Scholz is predicted to switch his duties to conservative chief Friedrich Merz on Could 6.
Merz had beforehand acknowledged earlier than the Bundestag election that he plans to go to Poland and France on his first day as chancellor.
Merz goals to ascertain a brand new basis for German-Polish relations with a friendship treaty, which he envisions concluding on the thirty fifth anniversary of the 1991 bilateral Treaty on Good Neighbourliness on June 17, 2026.
