Overview

• After roughly three months away from external appointments, she begins a stepwise return with limited capacity.
• Initial stops include a state cabinet meeting in Düsseldorf on Tuesday and a greeting at a skater park in Sankt Augustin.
• On Wednesday she is slated to take part in a special building-ministers' conference in Berlin as spokesperson for the union-governed states.
• She says additional treatment phases are scheduled and will require continued rest, even as she runs her ministry in full.
• She disclosed the diagnosis in June after seeking care for a cough, was re-elected in absentia as a CDU deputy state chair, and received public praise from Minister-President Hendrik Wüst.