Because of Hurricane Milton, US President Biden canceled his planned trip to Germany last week. According to reports, he wants to catch up on Friday.
US President Joe Biden wants to cancel his visit to Germany, according to information from ARD capital studios from government circles next week. Reuters and Spiegel had previously reported on the planned visit on Friday.
It should be “an official visit reduced to the core elements”. The originally planned Ramstein meeting of Western heads of state and government to support Ukraine will not be rescheduled in view of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj's recent European tour, according to Reuters.
Cancellation due to hurricane
Biden postponed his visit to Germany because of Hurricane Milton, which hit Florida last week. “Given the predicted path and strength of the hurricane,” the president will postpone his trip to Germany and Angola and work to oversee preparations for the storm, the White House said in a statement in Washington. Because there were fears of significant destruction, Biden stayed in the country.
Biden had previously come under pressure over his handling of Hurricane Helene. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused the Democrat and his deputy Kamala Harris of not doing enough for the storm victims.
It would have been Biden's first bilateral visit to Germany in his almost four-year term in office. Meetings with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), among others, were planned in Berlin.
