Berlin, 26 November 2019: Chancellor Angela Merkel opened this year's Internet Governance Forum with UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Under the banner "One World. One Net. One Vision" the Forum was being staged for the first time in Germany.
In her address, the Chancellor warned that the freedom of the internet cannot be assumed. There must be limits online as offline where individual rights are infringed or violated.
In the evening UN Secretary-General António Guterres visited the Federal Chancellery.
Germany is very much engaged in the UN, in political and financial terms, and in terms of German nationals working for the UN.
Berlin, 27 November 2019: Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke in the general debate on the 2020 budget in the German Bundestag.
"We have a high-investment budget – no budget has ever included so much investment," stressed the Chancellor. Even with a balanced budget a lot has been achieved for the people, as demonstrated by the government’s mid-term review.
In the evening the Chancellor accepted an invitation to attend the annual meeting of the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK). President Eric Schweitzer greeted the Chancellor.
The Chancellor advocated a European cloud to manage industrial data. Europe needs data sovereignty and for that we need to set standards, she declared. "But we also need your readiness, the readiness of German businesses to take this path."
Berlin, 28 November 2019: One outside, two inside - three trees decorate the Federal Chancellery over the Christmas period. On Thursday they were officially presented to the Chancellor.
This year the trees come from the federal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse.