European Parliament President Antonio Tajani is set to hold talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday.
Tajani is also scheduled to meet with German President Joachim Gauck.
Tajani, a member of the European Parliament’s centre-right European People’s Party, was elected to the presidency in January.
He took over from Martin Schulz, a German Social Democrat who returned to Berlin recently to run against Merkel as his party’s chancellor candidate. (dpa/NAN)