Overview
- Germany’s president and his wife were received with military honors by King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia at the Royal Palace in Madrid.
- Steinmeier is scheduled to address a joint session of Spain’s Congress and Senate and to visit the Reina Sofía to view Picasso’s Guernica.
- On Thursday he will open a German–Spanish economic forum and meet Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to discuss bilateral ties and support for Ukraine.
- Spain has recently pledged €817 million in new assistance to Ukraine, a commitment highlighted in the visit’s agenda.
- On Friday Steinmeier will become the first German head of state to visit Guernica to honor victims of the 1937 bombing by the Legion Condor, in the first German presidential state visit to Spain since 2002.