US President Joe Biden received Germany's highest award from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier during his visit to Berlin. The head of the United States was awarded a special degree of the Order of the Grand Cross "For Merit to the Federal Republic of Germany".
This was reported by TASS. The ceremony took place in the Bellevue presidential palace in Berlin. Biden received the medal for strengthening the German-American friendship and transatlantic alliance, becoming the second US president after George Bush Sr. to receive this award. Steinmeier emphasized that "friendship with the US is vitally important for Germany."
Biden arrived in Berlin on the evening of October 17. On the morning of October 18, he arrived at Bellevue Palace, where he was met by Steinmeier. Later, the US leader will hold talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. They will then be joined by French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. It is expected that the main topics of the talks will be the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. It was initially planned that last week the US president would be on a three-day state visit to Germany for the first time in 40 years and would hold a meeting with a larger group of countries providing military aid to Ukraine at the US Ramstein Air Base. with
However, Joe Biden canceled that trip to focus on the fight against Hurricane Milton, which hit the United States. Now he is making up for the missed visit with a short visit, and the meeting in the Rammstein format will be held in November, in a kind of way.
