Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Prime Minister Borisov Gives a Working Lunch in Honor of the President of Germany

The deepening of bilateral relations and the progress and development of the trade and economic partnership between Bulgaria and Germany will be the topics to be discussed by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Council of Ministers said.

Amb. Ploetner to assume senior position in German Foreign Ministry

German Ambassador to Greece Jens Ploetner is expected to take up duties as political director of Germany's Federal Foreign Office, Kathimerini understands.

A career diplomat, Ploetner took up his current post in July 2017 and is expected to leave Athens in April of this year.

German president in Athens, meeting with counterpart Pavlopoulos

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was in Athens on Thursday holding talks with his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Following his talks with Pavlopoulos, Steinmeier is due to meet Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the Maximos Mansion at noon.

Berlin says Greek war reparations have been 'legally and politically settled'

German government spokesman Steffen Seibert reiterated on Wednesday Germany's position that the issue of war reparations to Greece has been settled "legally and politically."

"The reparations issue was legally and politically settled," he said at a news conference in Berlin, adding that "nothing has changed" in that position.

German, Greek presidents to meet in Athens on Thursday

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is due to hold talks in Athens on Thursday with his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

The two men are to travel to Kalamata on Friday on the 74th anniversary of the liberation of Athens from German occupation, widely considered as the end of the Nazi occupation of Greece.

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