{"id":95730,"date":"2026-10-26T20:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=95730"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:01:05","slug":"german-chancellor-friedrich-merz-to-make-first-official-visit-to-singapore-from-oct-27-to-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=95730","title":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to make first official visit to Singapore from Oct 27 to 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>SINGAPORE: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will make his first official visit to Singapore from Tuesday (Oct 27) to Wednesday, Singapore&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The official visit reflects the &#8220;warm, longstanding and multifaceted&#8221; partnership between Singapore and Germany, MFA said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will host a welcome ceremony for the chancellor before the two leaders have a bilateral meeting. Mr Wong will also host a dinner in the chancellor\u2019s honour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Mr Merz, who has served as the Chancellor of Germany since May 2025, will also call on President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and be hosted to lunch by Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Chancellor Merz will deliver the 49th Singapore Lecture, organised by the Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The lecture, titled \u201cGermany and the Indo-Pacific: Partnership, Competitiveness, and Resilience in a Changing World\u201d, will be chaired by Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Singapore and Germany celebrated 60 years of diplomatic relations in 2025. Both countries launched a bilateral <\/span><span>&#8220;Year of Innovation&#8221;<\/span><span> this year, which built on an earlier <\/span><span>strategic partnership<\/span><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/german-chancellor-friedrich-merz-visit-singapore-6492861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n<p><center><script>\n  atOptions = {\n    'key' : 'ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540',\n    'format' : 'iframe',\n    'height' : 90,\n    'width' : 728,\n    'params' : {}\n  };\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540\/invoke.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will make his first official visit to Singapore from Tuesday (Oct 27) to Wednesday, Singapore&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--0VIlGfvT--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2024-04:reuters_1,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/one-cms\/core\/2026-10-24T122137Z_1_LYNXNPEM9N0A7_RTROPTP_3_GERMANY-POLITICS-CSU.JPG?itok=03v_6kcI","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24053,32153,4868,32154,1656,1289,22,1210],"class_list":["post-95730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-chancellor","tag-friedrich","tag-german","tag-merz","tag-oct","tag-official","tag-singapore","tag-visit","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}