NEW DELHI: German chancellor Angela Merkel arrived late Sunday night accompanied with six federal ministers, with the aim to make it easier for German firms to do business in India and prod New Delhi to do more on climate change.
Incidentally, Merkel has had to change her plane to a more Spartan Airbus A310 belonging to the German Military, after her official plane developed technical difficulties.
German media reported that she was forced to travel in a military cargo plane named after Kurt Schumacher, who headed the Social Democratic Party after the world war.
On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Merkel will lead the third Indo-German Intergovernmental Consultations, which has been dubbed as a ‘join mini cabinet meeting’. This is most broad-based talks that Germany holds with any other country.