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Prime Minister MARK CARNEY is headed to Germany next week.


Our colleagues in Berlin learned today in a government briefing that Chancellor FRIEDRICH MERZ will welcome Carney on Tuesday morning. The pair will talk about a variety of bilateral foreign and economic issues, including tariffs and the war in Ukraine.


Energy and Natural Resources Minister TIM HODGSON is also heading to Germany to hustle Canada’s critical minerals.


Playbook has learned Hodgson will do the rounds in Berlin on Tuesday, meeting with CEOs and executives from energy, manufacturing and defense companies. He’ll also deliver a speech to a business crowd at the Canadian embassy.


“It’s really a trade mission focused on energy and critical minerals,” said a government official with knowledge of the minister’s plans, and who was granted anonymity to speak about them.


Germany is “one of the priority markets” in the EU because it is the continent’s largest economy, the official noted.