PM statement at press conference with German Chancellor: 2 July 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a statement at a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
I바카라 사이트m very pleased to welcome Angela here on the last of the 22 visits you have made to the UK in your 16 years as German Chancellor. In the course of that time some things have changed beyond recognition, but for much of your tenure it was certainly a tradition, Angela, for England to lose to Germany in international football tournaments and I바카라 사이트m obviously grateful to you for breaking with that tradition, just for once.
Nonetheless, one thing that has stayed the same is your commitment to the UK-Germany relationship. As you once said, we share the same values. And we share a lot more than that. Germany is the UK바카라 사이트s second largest trading partner, three-quarters of a million Brits work for German companies or vice versa. More than 21,000 Germans attend UK Universities and one in five people in this country are driving around in a German car. And today Angela and I have agreed to expand those links because we are expanding our youth exchanges, creating a new cultural dialogue and as we speak an energy superhighway is being established between our countries which will enable British tea to be brewed with the harvest of German sunshine and German Bratwurst will be grilled using British wind power.
Angela you바카라 사이트ve just addressed the British Cabinet 바카라 사이트 I hope you enjoyed it- and you바카라 사이트re the first foreign leader to do so this century. And what we바카라 사이트ve also agreed is that from now on the German and UK Cabinets will meet every year to discuss shared issues in the first arrangement of its kind for the UK.
Angela, on behalf of the UK, I want to thank you for your truly historic commitment to not just to the UK-German relationship but to global diplomacy more generally. I think over the last year, 18 months in particular, your scientific expertise has been instrumental in guiding the global response to the pandemic, and, as I was saying, a commitment to science and research is something our counties share and want to develop together.
It is no coincidence that two of the world바카라 사이트s most successful coronavirus vaccines 바카라 사이트 Pfizer Biontech and Oxford-AstraZeneca 바카라 사이트 came out of German and British labs.
I바카라 사이트m very proud that today we are establishing the new Herschel Medal for German and British women in Astrophysics in your honour 바카라 사이트 just one, Angela, of the lasting legacies of your leadership.
It바카라 사이트s a great privilege to welcome you here today Angela, over to you.