Kiev and Berlin want to push ahead with their city twinning agreement. The two mayors are meeting in Berlin this week.
Berlin and Kiev want to seal their new city partnership on Thursday. The Governing Mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner (CDU), will receive his Kiev colleague Vitali Klitschko at the Brandenburg Gate and in the Red City Hall, as the Senate Chancellery announced.
Berlin’s CDU and SPD had already fundamentally agreed on twinning with Kiev during their coalition negotiations. The parliamentary groups of both coalition partners then brought the issue forward in the House of Representatives. Tel Aviv is also set to become a new twin city.
Klitschko wrote to Wegner in May and asked the governing mayor about the possibility of a partnership. According to its own statements, the SPD sees this as a gesture of solidarity with Ukraine. The country has been defending itself against a Russian invasion since February 2022.
Source: Stern
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