Crown Prince Haakon arrives for conference at Chamber of Commerce
On the third day of his trip to Germany, Norway's Crown Prince Haakon arrived at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. The 50-year-old will give a speech at a business conference. The main topic will be a climate-friendly transformation of the economy. The Crown Prince will be accompanied by Norway's Minister of Economic Affairs, Jan Christian Vestre, and the Norwegian Minister of Energy, Terje Aasland.
The meeting was also attended by the heads of the northern German states, including Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Minister President Manuela Schwesig (SPD), Schleswig-Holstein's Minister President Daniel Günther (CDU), Hamburg's State Councillor Almut Möller (SPD) and Lower Saxony's Economics Minister Olaf Lies (SPD).
The day will be crowned by a traditional harbor tour, which will focus on economic policy issues. Among other things, the Crown Prince wants to find out how the aircraft industry and the port industry can become more climate-friendly with the help of hydrogen.
In the afternoon, the Crown Prince will travel on to Berlin. There he will meet with Crown Princess Mette-Marit. In the capital, the couple will attend a commemoration ceremony on Thursday to mark 9 November, the day the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. At the end of the four-day trip to Germany, visits to Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Bellevue Palace and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the Chancellery are planned.
During his speech at the business conference, Crown Prince Haakon discussed the nobility of transitioning the economy towards climate-friendliness. The people in attendance, including German state leaders, showed great interest in this noble cause.
Source: www.dpa.com
