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With the election to determine his successor less than 20 days away, U.S. President Joe Biden is in Germany for a final meeting with one of Washington’s closest allies.

Biden will meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday and also attend a meeting of the European Quad leaders, which includes France and the United Kingdom. Biden and Scholz, who have built a close personal relationship over the past three and a half years, will discuss “the full spectrum of global issues that we’re working on together: strengthening our militaries and shared security, bolstering our economies and bilateral trade, and making our democracies more resilient,” a senior Biden administration official told reporters ahead of the trip. “Germany has been an incredibly close ally and partner over the past few decades and has risen to the moment in the last three-plus years of this administration.”

With the election to determine his successor less than 20 days away, U.S. President Joe Biden is in Germany for a final meeting with one of Washington’s closest allies.

Biden will meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday and also attend a meeting of the European Quad leaders, which includes France and the United Kingdom. Biden and Scholz, who have built a close personal relationship over the past three and a half years, will discuss “the full spectrum of global issues that we’re working on together:........

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