List of international trips made by Angela Merkel

This is a list of international trips made by Angela Merkel, the 8th Chancellor of Germany, since her assumption of office on 22 November 2005 to December 8, 2021, date of the election and investiture of Olaf Scholz, new chancellor.

Summary of international trips edit

 
A map of all the countries she visited as of February 2015.
 
List of international trips made by Angela Merkel

2005 edit

Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s)
  France Paris 23 November Note: First trip abroad as Chancellor of Germany.
  Belgium Brussels 24 November
  United Kingdom London 24 November
  Spain Barcelona 27 November
  Poland Warsaw 2 December
  Belgium Brussels 16–17 December

2006 edit

Country Areas visited Date(s) Image(s)
  Austria Vienna 2 January
  United States Washington, D.C. 12–13 January
 
  Russia Moscow 16 January
  France Versailles 23 January
  Israel Jerusalem 29 January
  "Palestinian territories"[a] Ramallah
  United States New York City and Washington D.C. 4–5 April
  Russia Tomsk 26 April
 
  Slovakia Bratislava 11 May
  Austria Vienna 12 May
  China Beijing and Shanghai 22–23 May
  Russia Saint Petersburg 15–17 July
  France Paris 25 August
  Finland Helsinki 10–11 September
  France Compiègne 23 September
  Italy Castel Gandolfo 28 September
  Turkey Istanbul 6 October
  France Paris 12 October
  Finland Lahti 20 October
  Netherlands The Hague 27 October
  United Kingdom London 3 November
  Luxembourg Luxembourg City 15 November
  Italy Milan 7 December
  Belgium Brussels 15 December
  Finland Helsinki 19 December
  Denmark Copenhagen

2007 edit

Country Areas visited Date(s) Image(s)
  United States Washington, D.C. 5 January
 
  Slovenia Ljubljana 15 January
  France Strasbourg 17 January
  Russia Sochi 21 January
   Switzerland Davos 24 January
  Egypt Cairo 3 February
  Saudi Arabia Riyadh 4 February
  United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi and Dubai 5–6 February
  Kuwait Kuwait City 6 February
  France Strasbourg 13 February
Cannes 15 February
  Belgium Brussels 7 March
  Poland Warsaw 16 March
  Italy Rome 19 March
  Jordan Amman and Aqaba 31 March
  Israel Jerusalem 1 April
  "Palestinian territories"[a] Ramallah
  Lebanon Beirut 2 April
  United States Washington, D.C. 29–30 April
  Croatia Zagreb 11 May
  Russia Samara 17–18 May
  Luxembourg Luxembourg City 17 June
  Belgium Brussels 21–22 June
  France Toulouse 16 July
  Greece Athens 20 July
  Denmark Ilulissat 17–18 August
  Hungary Budapest 21 August
  United Kingdom London 22 August
  China Beijing and Nanjing 26–28 August
  Japan Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka 28–31 August
 
  United States New York City 24–25 September
  Ethiopia Addis Ababa 4 October
  South Africa Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town 5–6 October
  Liberia Monrovia 7 October
  India New Delhi and Mumbai 29 October to 1 November
 
  Afghanistan Kabul 3 November
 
  United States Crawford, Texas 9–10 November
  France Paris 13 December
  Portugal Lisbon 8 December
13 December
  Belgium Brussels 14 December

2008 edit

Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s)
  United Kingdom London 29 January
  Spain Palma 31 January
  Russia Moscow 8 March
  Belgium Brussels 14 March
  Israel Jerusalem and Tel Aviv 14–16 March
  Romania Bucharest 3–4 April See 2008 Bucharest summit
  Norway Oslo 12 April
  Ireland Dublin 14 April
  France Strasbourg 15 April
  Switzerland Bern and Geneva 29 April
  Brazil Brasília and São Paulo 13–15 May
  Peru Lima 15–16 May
  Colombia Bogotá 16–17 May
  Mexico Mexico City 17–18 May
  Japan Tōyako 7–8 July
  France Paris 13 July
  Algeria Algiers 17 July
  Ukraine Kyiv 21 July
  Russia Sochi 15–16 August
  Georgia Tbilisi 17 August
  Sweden Stockholm 25 August
  Estonia Tallinn 26 August
  Lithuania Vilnius 26 August
  Belgium Brussels 1 September
  Poland Wrocław 24 September
  Russia Saint Petersburg 2 October
  France Paris 4 October
Colombey-les-Deux-Églises 11 October
Paris 12 October
  Belgium Brussels 16 October
  Czech Republic Prague 20 October
  China Beijing 23–25 October
  United Kingdom London 30 October
  United States Washington D.C. 14–15 November
  Belgium Brussels 7 November
  Italy Trieste 18 November
  France Paris 24 November
  Poland Warsaw 9 December
  Belgium Brussels 11–12 December

2009 edit

Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s)
  France Paris 8 January
  Egypt Sharm El Sheikh 13 January
  Israel Jerusalem 13 January
  Switzerland Davos 30 January
  Belgium Brussels 1 March
20 March
  United Kingdom London 1 April
  France Strasbourg 4 April
  Czech Republic Prague 5 April
  Afghanistan Kunduz 6 April
  Czech Republic Prague 7 May
  Poland Kraków 4 June
  France Paris 11 June
  Belgium Brussels 19 June
  United States Washington, D.C. 26 June
  Italy L'Aquila 8–10 July
  Russia Sochi 14 August
  Hungary Sopron 19 August
  Poland Gdańsk 1 September 70th anniversary of the September campaign
  Belgium Brussels 17 September
  United States Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 24–25 September
  Belgium Brussels 29–30 October
  United States Washington, D.C. 2–3 November
  France Paris 11 November
  Belgium Brussels 19 November
10–11 December
  Denmark Copenhagen 17–18 December

2010 edit

 
Dmitry Medvedev greeting Merkel prior to the 2010 Moscow Victory Day Parade.
 
A joint press conference between Merkel and Valdis Dombrovskis in Riga.
Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s)
  France Paris 4 February
  Belgium Brussels 11 February
  Luxembourg Luxembourg City 9 March
  Netherlands The Hague 11 March
  Belgium Brussels 25–26 March
  Turkey Istanbul and Ankara 29–30 March
  United Kingdom Chequers and London 1 April
  United States Washington D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles 12–15 April
  Portugal Lisbon 16 April
  Italy Bolzano 17–18 April
  Belgium Brussels 7 May
  Russia Moscow 8–9 May See 2010 Moscow Victory Day Parade
  Belgium Brussels 17 June
  Canada Huntsville and Toronto 25–27 June See 36th G8 summit and 2010 G20 Toronto summit
  South Africa Cape Town 3 July See 2010 FIFA World Cup
  Russia Yekaterinburg 15 July[1][2]
  China Beijing and Xi'an 16–17 July
  Kazakhstan Astana 18 July
  Lithuania Vilnius 6 September
  Latvia Riga 7 September
  Belgium Brussels 16 September
  United States New York City 20–21 September
  Belgium Brussels 4 October
  Bulgaria Sofia 11 October
  Romania Bucharest 12 October[3]
  France Deauville 18–19 October
  Belgium Brussels 28–29 September
  United Kingdom Chequers 20–21 September
  Belgium Brussels 30–31 October
  Republic of Korea Seoul 11–12 November See 2010 G20 Seoul summit
  Belgium Brussels and Bruges 12 November
  Portugal Lisbon 19–20 November See 2010 Lisbon summit
  Kazakhstan Astana 1 December
  Belgium Brussels 16–17 December
  Afghanistan Kunduz and Mazar-i-Sharif 18 December

2011 edit

 
Merkel with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in Madrid, February 2011
Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s)
  Malta Valletta 10 January
  Cyprus Nicosia 11 January
  Switzerland Davos 28 January
  Israel Jerusalem and Tel Aviv 31 January to 1 February
  Spain Madrid 3 February
  Belgium Brussels 4 February
  Poland Warsaw 7 February
  Slovakia Bratislava 11 February
  Belgium Brussels 11 March
  France Paris 19 March
  Belgium Brussels 24–25 March
  France Deauville 26–27 May See 37th G8 summit
  India New Delhi 31 May
  Singapore Central Area 1 June
  United States Washington, D.C. 7–8 June
  Switzerland Geneva 14 June
  Poland Warsaw 21 June
  Belgium Brussels 23–24 June
  Poland Hel Peninsula 9 July
  Kenya Nairobi 12 July
  Angola Luanda 13 July
  Nigeria Abuja 14 July
  Belgium Brussels 21 July
  France Paris 16 August
  Croatia Zagreb 22 August
  Serbia Belgrade 23 August
  Slovenia Ljubljana 30 August
  France Paris 1 September
  Poland Warsaw 29–30 September
  Belgium Brussels 5 October
  Vietnam Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City 10–11 October
  Mongolia Ulanbaatar 12–13 October [4][5]
  Belgium Brussels 23 October
  France Cannes 2–3 November See 2011 G20 Cannes summit
  Belgium Brussels 8–9 December
  Kosovo Pristina 19 December

2012 edit

Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s)
  Switzerland Davos 25 January
  Belgium Brussels 30 January
  China Beijing and Guangzhou 1 February
  France Paris 6 February
  Belgium Brussels 1–2 March
  Italy Rome 13 March
  Czech Republic Prague 3 April
  United States Camp David and Chicago 18–20 May See 38th G8 summit and 2012 Chicago summit
  Belgium Brussels 23 May
  Mexico Los Cabos 18–19 June See 2012 G20 Los Cabos summit
  Italy Rome 22 June
  France Paris 27 June
  Belgium Brussels 28–29 June
  Italy Rome 4 July
  France Reims 8 July
  Indonesia Jakarta 9–11 July
  Canada Ottawa and Gatineau 15–16 August
  Moldova Chișinău 22 August
  China Beijing and Tianjin 29–30 August
  Spain Madrid 6 September
  Austria Vienna 7 September
  Greece Athens 9 October
  Belgium Brussels 18–19 October
  Belgium Brussels 7 November
  United Kingdom London 7 November
  Portugal Lisbon 12 November
  Russia Moscow 16 November
  Belgium Brussels 22–23 November
  Norway Oslo 10 December
  Belgium Brussels 13–14 December

2013 edit

 
Merkel with Nicos Anastasiades in Limassol, January 2013.
Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s)
  Cyprus Limassol 12 January
  Switzerland Davos 24 January
  Chile Santiago 26–27 January
  France Paris 6 February
  Belgium Brussels 7–8 February
  Norway Oslo 20 February
  Turkey Ankara, Kahramanmaraş and Göreme 24–25 February
  Poland Warsaw 6 March
  Belgium Brussels 15–15 March
  Vatican Vatican City 19 March
  Afghanistan Mazar-i-Sharif and Kunduz 10 May
  Vatican Vatican City 18 May
  Belgium Brussels 22 May
  Netherlands Nijmegen 23 May
  United Kingdom London 25 May
  France Paris 30 May
  United Kingdom Lough Erne 17–18 June
  Russia Saint Petersburg 21 June
  Belgium Brussels 28–29 June
  Russia Saint Petersburg 5–6 September
  Belgium Gent 19 October
Brussels 24–25 October
  France Paris 12 November
  Lithuania Vilnius 28–29 November
  France Paris 18 December
  Belgium Brussels 19–20 December

2014 edit

 
Merkel with Sybrand van Haersma Buma in Dublin, March 2014.
 
Merkel with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw, March 2014
 
Merkel with U.S. President Barack Obama in the White House garden, May 2014.
 
Merkel with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron in Flen Municipality, June 2014.
Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s)
  France Paris 19 February
  Israel Jerusalem 24–25 February
  United Kingdom London 27 February
  Belgium Brussels 6 March
  Ireland Dublin 7 March
  Poland Warsaw 12 March
  Belgium Brussels 20–21 March
  Netherlands The Hague 24–25 March
  Belgium Brussels 2–3 April
  Greece Athens 11 April
  United States Washington D.C. 2 May
  Belgium Brussels 27 May
4–5 June See 40th G7 summit
  France Ouistreham and Ranville 6 June 70th anniversary of D-Day
  Sweden Flen Municipality 9–10 June
  Brazil Brasília and Salvador 15–16 June See 2014 FIFA World Cup
  Belgium Ypres und Brussels 26–27 June
  China Beijing and Chengdu 6–8 July
  Brazil Rio de Janeiro 13 July See 2014 FIFA World Cup
  Croatia Dubrovnik 15 July
  Belgium Brussels 16 July
  Latvia Riga 18 August
  Ukraine Kyiv 23 August
  Spain Santiago de Compostela 24–25 August
  Belgium Brussels 30 August
  United Kingdom Newport 4–5 September See 2014 Wales summit
  Italy Milan 16–17 October
  Slovakia Bratislava 20 October
  Belgium Brussels 23–24 October
Ypres and Nieuwpoort 28 October 100th anniversary of the First Battle of Ypres[6][7][8]
  New Zealand Auckland and Motutapu Island 13–14 November
  Australia Brisbane and Sydney 15–17 November See 2014 G20 Brisbane summit
  Poland Krzyżowa 20 November
  Belgium Brussels 18–19 December

2015 edit

 
Merkel with Vladimir Putin and French President Francois Hollande in the Moscow Kremlin.
 
Merkel with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, February 2015.
 
Merkel (center) at the Minsk II talks in Minsk, Belarus.
 
Merkel with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, October 2015.
Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s)
  United Kingdom London 7 January
  France Paris 11 January
  Switzerland Davos 22 January
  Italy Florence 22–23 January
  France Strasbourg 30 January
  Hungary Budapest 2 February
  Ukraine Kyiv 5 February
  Russia Moscow 6 February Trilateral Summit with French President Francois Hollande[9]
  United States Washington D.C. 8–9 February
  Canada Ottawa 9–10 February
  Belarus Minsk 11–12 February See Minsk II[10]
  Belgium Brussels 12 February
  France Paris 20 February
  Italy Rome 20–21 February
  Vatican Vatican City 20 February
  Belgium Brussels 4 March
  Japan Tokyo and Kawasaki 9–10 March
  Belgium Brussels 19–20 March
  France Seyne 25 March
  Finland Helsinki 30 March
  Belgium Brussels 23 April
  Poland Warsaw 27 April
  Denmark Copenhagen 28 April
  Russia Moscow 10 May See Victory Day (9 May)[11][12][13]
  Switzerland Geneva 18 May
  Latvia Riga 20–21 May
  Belgium Brussels 10–11 June
22 June
25–26 June
  France Paris 6 July
  Belgium Brussels 7 July
  Albania Tirana 8 July
  Serbia Belgrade 8 July
  Bosnia Sarajevo 9 July
  Belgium Brussels 12 July
  Italy Milan 17 August
  Brazil Brasília 19–20 August
  Austria Vienna 27 August See 2015 Western Balkans Summit, Vienna
  Switzerland Bern 3 September
  Belgium Brussels 23 September
  United States New York City 24–27 September
  France Paris 2 October
  India New Delhi and Bangalore 4–6 October
  France Strasbourg 7 October
  United Kingdom Chequers 9 October
  Belgium Brussels 15–16 October
  Turkey Istanbul 18 October
  Belgium Brussels 25 October
  France Paris 27 October
  China Beijing and Hefei 28–30 October
  Malta Valletta 11–12 November
  Turkey Antalya 15–16 November See 2015 G20 Antalya summit
  France Paris 25 November See COP21 Summit
  Belgium Brussels 29 November
  France Paris 30 November
  Belgium Brussels 17–18 December

2016 edit

Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s)
  United Kingdom London 4 February
  France Strasbourg 7 February
  United Kingdom London 7 January
  Turkey Ankara 8 February
  Belgium Brussels 18–19 February
  France Paris 4 March
  Belgium Brussels 7 March
17–18 March
  France Metz 7 April
  Netherlands Middelburg and Eindhoven 21 April
  Turkey Gaziantep 23 April
  Italy Rome 5 May
  Vatican Vatican City 6 May
  Turkey Istanbul 22–23 May
  Japan Shima 26–27 May See 42nd G7 summit
  France Verdun 29 May
  Switzerland Schattdorf and Pollegio 1 June
  China Beijing and Shenyang 12–14 June
  France Paris 4 July See 2016 Western Balkans Summit, Paris
  Poland Warsaw 8–9 July See 2016 Warsaw summit
  Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 13–14 July [14]
  Mongolia Ulanbaatar 15–16 July
  Italy Ventotene 22 August
  Estonia Tallinn 24–25 August
  Czech Republic Prague 25 August
  Poland Warsaw 26 August
  Italy Maranello 31 August
  France Évian-les-Bains 2 September
  China Hangzhou 4–5 September See 2016 G20 Hangzhou summit
  France Paris 15 September
  Slovakia Bratislava 16 September
  Austria Vienna 24 September
  Mali Bamako 9 October
  Niger Niamey 10 October
  Ethiopia Addis Ababa 11 October
  Belgium Brussels 20–21 October
15 December

2017 edit

 
Merkel and Beata Szydło in Warsaw, February 2017.
 
Merkel with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, March 2017.
 
Merkel with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, May 2017.
 
Merkel at the 43rd G7 summit in Taormina, May 2017.
 
Merkel with the Argentinian President Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires, June 2017.
Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s)
  Luxembourg Luxembourg City 12 January
  Belgium Brussels 12 January
  Sweden Stockholm 31 January
  Turkey Ankara 2 February
  Malta Valletta 2–3 February
  Poland Warsaw 7 February
  Egypt Cairo 2 March
  Tunisia Tunis 3 March
  France Versailles 6 March
  Belgium Brussels 9–10 March
  United States Washington D.C. 17 March
  Vatican Vatican City 24 March
  Italy Rome 24–25 March
  Belgium Brussels 29 April
  Saudi Arabia Jeddah 30 April
  United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 1 May
  Russia Sochi 2 May
  Belgium Brussels 25 May See 2017 Brussels summit
  Italy Taormina 26–27 May See 43rd G7 summit
  Argentina Buenos Aires 8 June
  Mexico Mexico City 9–10 June
  Italy Rome 16–17 June
  Vatican Vatican City 16 June
  Belgium Brussels 22–23 June
  France Strasbourg 1 July
  Italy Trieste 12 July See 2017 Western Balkans Summit, Trieste
  France Paris 13 July
28 August
  Estonia Tallinn 29 September
  Belgium Brussels 19–20 October Merkel attended the European Council meeting.
24 November
  Ivory Coast Abidjan 29 November
  France Paris 13 December

2018 edit

 
Merkel with the Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw, March 2018
 
Merkel with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, May 2018.
 
Merkel at the 44th G7 summit La Malbaie, June 2018.
 
Merkel alongside world leaders during a summit in Istanbul on Syria, October 2018.
 
Merkel with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku, August 2018.
Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s)
  France Paris 19 January
  Bulgaria Sofia 20 January
  France Paris 16 March
  Poland Warsaw 19 March
  Belgium Brussels 22–23 March
  United States Washington, D.C. 27 April[15]
  Italy Assisi 12 May
  Bulgaria Sofia 16–17 May[16]
  Russia Sochi 18 May[17]
  China Beijing and Shenzhen 23–25 May
  Portugal Braga, Porto and Lisbon 30–31 May
  Italy Eppan 3 June
  Canada La Malbaie 8–9 June
  Jordan Amman 21 June
  Lebanon Beirut 22 June
  Belgium Brussels 24 June
28–29 June
  United Kingdom London 10 July[18]
  Belgium Brussels 11–12 July
  Spain Almonte 11–12 August
  Georgia Tbilisi and Odzisi 23 August[19]
  Armenia Yerevan 24 August[20]
  Azerbaijan Baku 25 August[21]
  Senegal Dakar 29 August
  Ghana Accra 30 August
  Nigeria Abuja 31 August[22]
  France Marseille 7 September
  Macedonia[b] Skopje 8 September
  Lithuania Vilnius and Rukla 14 September
  Algeria Algiers 17 September
  Austria Salzburg 19–20 September
  Israel Jerusalem 3–4 October
  Netherlands The Hague 10 October
  Belgium Brussels 17–19 October
  Czech Republic Prague 26 October Attended the 100th anniversary of the founding of the former Czechoslovakia[23][24][25][26]
  Turkey Istanbul 27 October[27]
  Ukraine Kyiv 1 November
  Poland Warsaw 2 November
  Finland Helsinki 7 November
  France Paris and Compiègne 10–11 November[28]
Strasbourg 13 November
  Belgium Brussels 25 November
  Argentina Buenos Aires 30 November to 1 December See 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit[29]
  United States Washington, D.C. 5 December Attended the state funeral of George H. W. Bush
  Morocco Marrakesh 9–10 December
  Belgium Brussels 13–14 December

2019 edit

 
Merkel in Sibiu in May 2019
 
Merkel meeting with Pedro Sánchez, Acting Prime Minister of Spain, on 28 May 2019 in Brussels
 
Merkel in Osaka in June 2019
 
Merkel with French president Emmanuel Macron in Paris in December 2019
 
Merkel at the Normandy Format with French president Emmanuel Macron, Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris.
Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s)
  Greece Athens 10–11 January See Germany-Greece relations.[30][31][32]
   Switzerland Davos 23–24 January Attended the World Economic Forum.
  Japan Tokyo 3–5 February
  Egypt Sharm el-Sheikh 24–25 February
  France Paris 27 February
  Belgium Brussels 21–22 March
  France Paris 26 March See 2019 Xi Jinping Italy and France visit
  Italy Assisi 29 March
  Ireland Dublin 4 April
  Belgium Brussels 10 April
  Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 1 May[33]
  Mali Gao 2 May[33]
  Niger Niamey 3 May[33]
  Romania Sibiu 9 May
  Croatia Zagreb 18 May
  Belgium Brussels 28 May
  United States Cambridge, Boston 30 May Delivered a speech for the Harvard University Class of 2019[34]
  United Kingdom Portsmouth 5 June 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings[35]
  Switzerland Geneva 11 June
  Belgium Brussels 20–21 June
  Japan Osaka 27–28 June See 2019 G20 Osaka summit[36][37][38]
  Belgium Brussels 30 June to 2 July
  Poland Poznań 5 July[39] See 2019 Western Balkans Summit, Poznań
  France Paris 14 July See Bastille Day military parade[40][41][42]
  Hungary Sopron 19 August Attended the 30th anniversary of the "Pan-European Picnic"[43][44][45][46]
  Iceland Reykjavík and Þingvellir 19–20 August
  Netherlands The Hague 22 August
  France Biarritz 24–26 August See 45th G7 summit
  Poland Warsaw 1 September 80th anniversary of the September campaign
  China Beijing 6–7 September
  United States New York 22–24 September Attended the UN General Assembly
  France Paris 30 September See Death and state funeral of Jacques Chirac.
13 October
  India New Delhi 31 October to 2 November
  Italy Rome 11 November Official visit
  Croatia Zagreb 20 November Official visit
  United Kingdom London and Watford 3–4 December See 2019 London summit
  Poland Oświęcim 6 December
  France Paris 9 December See Normandy Format
  Belgium Brussels 12–13 December

2020 edit

 
Merkel with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, January 2020.
Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s)
  Russia Moscow 11 January
   Switzerland Davos 23 January Attended the World Economic Forum.
  Turkey Istanbul 24 January[47]
  South Africa Pretoria 5–6 February
  Angola Luanda 7 February
  Belgium Brussels 20 February Attended a European Summit.
8 July Speech in the European Parliament.
Note: First trip abroad since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic
17–21 July Attended a Special European Summit.
  France Bormes-les-Mimosas 20 August Discussed the 2020 Belarusian protests and COVID-19 with President Macron.
  Belgium Brussels 1–2 October Participation in the European Council.
15–16 October
10–11 December

2021 edit

Country Areas visited Date(s) Note(s) Image
  United Kingdom Carbis Bay 11–13 June
  Belgium Brussels 14 June
Brussels 24–25 June Attended a European Summit.
  United Kingdom Ellesborough, Windsor 2 July
  United States Washington, D.C. 15 July
 
Merkel with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office, 15 July 2021.
  Russia Moscow 20 August
  Ukraine Kyiv 22–24 August[48]
  Poland Warsaw 11 September
  Serbia Belgrade 13 September
  Albania Tirana 14 September
  France Paris 16 September
  Slovenia Predoslje 5–6 October Attended a EU-Western Balkan Summit.
  Italy Rome 7 October
 
  Vatican City Vatican City
  Israel Jerusalem, Yad Vashem 9–11 October
  Spain Cuacos de Yuste 14 October
 
  Belgium Brussels 15 October
  Turkey Istanbul 16 October See Germany-Turkey relations and Turkey-European Union relations.
  Belgium Brussels 21–22 October Attended a European Summit.
  Greece Athens 29 October
  Italy Rome 30–31 October
  United Kingdom Glasgow 1–3 November Attended the COP26 Summit.
  France Beaune 3 November Merkel received the Legion of Honour.
Paris 12 November Attended an international conference on Libya
Note: Last trip abroad as Chancellor of Germany.

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b The Federal Republic of Germany does not recognised the State of Palestine as an independent and sovereign state.
  2. ^ The Republic of Macedonia changed its name to Republic of North Macedonia on 12 February 2019.

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