In John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan gave the city where tenacious Cold War speech, President Obama will call again on Wednesday in response to the Western challenge of the 21st century, from nuclear proliferation to climate change activism spirit.
Last visit.
Since then a lot has changed. After more than four years of office, Obama has disappointed some Europeans who saw him for his divisive predecessor, Republican George · W · Bush compared to the U.S. to face a more friendly and more progressive.
But Democratic leaders are still popular in Germany, he has forged a pragmatic relationship - if not warm - conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, he was one of the closest European allies. The next few months before the German elections, Obama's trip to her a boost.
President will spend his day, at a meeting with Angela Merkel, German President Joachim · Gauck, Peer Steinbrueck, the Social Democratic Party to run against her this fall. Obama and Merkel is scheduled for noon news conference.
The highlight of his visit, however, will the historic Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburg Gate) speech, the Berlin Wall once stood together on a brick into communism and Western capitalism part of the city.
Reagan warned the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev "tear down this wall!" Speech on the west side of the door in 1987 during the Kennedy delivered his famous "non-material cultural heritage Bin EIN Berlin" remarks, it was 50 years ago in the city a few kilometers to the south comfortable.
Merkel disabled, then Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, from 2008 in front of the famous landmark speech. He gave an address in the adjacent Tiergarten park, rather than about 200,000 jubilant fans.
This year, about 4,000 government officials and students crowd, he would stand in Paris Square (Pariser Platz) east of the square on the door and called Germans, Europeans and Americans use their common history, strong alliances, to solve the pressing problems the 21st century.
"This is the place to talk about the U.S. President's role in the free world, basically," Obama's deputy national security adviser Rhodes (Ben Rhodes) told reporters aboard Air Force One Tuesday evening to Berlin flights.
"First and foremost, he will make the citizens and nationalism characteristic Kennedy speech, needs to be applied to the challenges facing us now is exactly the same level and the Cold War," he said.
TRANSATLANTIC transfer
Rhodes said these challenges including nuclear arms control, climate change, terrorism, and the promotion of democratic values ??beyond the Western world. Obama is expected to launch in the coming weeks new initiatives, flying global warming.
Headquartered in Washington, Center for Strategic and International Studies Heather - Conley said, when speaking to the United States, Barack Obama, launched a "fulcrum" Asia has less defined relationship with Europe.
"We see, 50 years later, it is a more definitive Germany in Europe and worldwide, and in some ways it is the U.S. transatlantic relations in the future where to go from here into the uncertain waters," she said.
During the talks, Obama and Merkel is expected to focus on Syria and Afghanistan wars, a new EU - U.S. trade agreement negotiations, as well as U.S. spy program is called prism revelation upset alert the government to monitor the German post-traumatic Nazi Gestapo and the East German Stasi secret police.
"I expect the Prime Minister to raise this issue and to seek answers to the" St. Ruprecht Polenz, a member of Merkel's conservatives, the lower house of the German Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman said that Internet monitoring program.
As some people expected, this problem may not cause too much friction. Merkel in an interview on Monday defended the practice, saying Washington's spy network to help prevent attacks on German soil.
Obama, who was joined by his wife Michelle and their two daughters, last Tuesday night landed at Berlin's red carpet and honor guard welcome. Because of his motorcade swept through the city's streets broad, Germany lined up to watch and wave. One carried a huge American flag.
Although not everyone is happy to see that American leaders. Some media reported that anti-Obama protests may draw up to 5,000 people on Wednesday. Pirate Party, the Internet Freedom Movement, known as rebound Victory Column, Obama in 2008.
 
 



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