{"id":117737,"date":"2015-05-20T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=117737"},"modified":"2015-05-20T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T11:48:13","slug":"%e2%80%8e-akufo-addo-meets-german-chancellor-angela-merkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/05\/%e2%80%8e-akufo-addo-meets-german-chancellor-angela-merkel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200e Akufo-Addo meets German Chancellor, Angela Merkel"},"content":{"rendered":"
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, met briefly with the German Chancellor, Dr Angela Merkel at the Deutscher Bundestag [the German Parliament] in Berlin.<\/p>\n
The brief discussion between the two leaders took place prior to a meeting of the parliamentary group of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), at the Bundestag.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”1tv03M7WJpjbAxpwGMJJLHfsJQ4kgX68″]Nana Akufo-Addo, who is currently on the 4th day of his working visit to Germany, used the opportunity to renew acquaintances and also congratulate the German Chancellor on her re-election in September 2013, marking her 3rd term in office as the leader of Europe’s biggest economy.<\/p>\n
On her part, Dr. Merkel, who is also the leader of the CDU, thanked Nana Akufo-Addo for his visit and wished the NPP leader well ahead of the December 2016 election.<\/p>\n
Prior to the meeting with the German Chancellor, Nana Addo met with Mr. Volkmar Klein MdB, budgetary and financial policy spokesman of the CDU parliamentary group at the Bundestag.<\/p>\n
He also called on Ambassador Georg Schmidt, Regional Director for sub-Saharan Africa and the Sahel of the Federal Foreign Office, in his final meeting of the day.<\/p>\n
The state of the Ghanaian economy, the consolidation of the democratic credentials of Ghana, as well as the importance of regional integration as a tool to for the rapid development of the West African region, were discussed.<\/p>\n