Ghana's Market Holds Great Potential for Germany - North Rhine Westphalia Minister President
The Minister President of the German state of North Rhine Westphalia,
Admin Laschet has stated that the Ghanaian market and the rest of
Africa holds great potential for the economy of North Rhine Westphalia
and Germany has a whole especially.
Addressing a joint press conference at the State Chancellery after meeting with President Akufo Addo, the Minister President, Armin Laschet, observed that African markets hold great potential for the economy of North Rhine - Westphalia especially in renewable energy and water management.
He and his cabinet are therefore ready to launch a joint exchange programme for start-up companies in the identified areas and particularly in the digital service industry. He added that Ghana is a model country for democracy and development in Africa and that he is excited that President Akufo Addo accepted his invitation to visit the German state of North Rhine Westphalia.
President Akufo Addo
In his rather brief
remarks at the Press Conference, President Akufo Addo registered his
sincere thanks to the Minister President for his invitation. He welcomed
the renewed commitment of Germany to partner with Ghana in her
industrialization efforts.
Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia
Armin Laschet, born 18th February, 1961, is a German politician. He
currently serves as one of five deputy chairmen of the Christian
Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and head of the party in Germany’s
most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia. Laschet was born in
Burtscheid, a suburb of Aachen near the Belgian and Dutch borders, to an
observant Roman Catholic family. His father was a supervisor at a black
coal mine and later became an elementary school teacher and headmaster.
He attended the Pius-Gymnasium in Aachen and studied law at the
universities of Bonn and Munich, passing the first state examination in
law in 1987.
He studied journalism from 1986 to 1988. In Munich
he became a member of K.D.St.V. Aenania München, a Catholic student
fraternity that is a member of the Cartellverband. Laschet worked as a
journalist and in the publishing industry from 1986 until 1991,
including as Bonn correspondent for Bayerischer Rundfunk. He later
served as editor-in-chief of Kirchen Zeitung Aachen from 1991 until
1994.
Under Minister-President Jürgen Rüttgers in North
Rhine-Westphalia, Laschet served as State Minister for Generations,
Family, Women and Integration from 2005 until 2010, and as State
Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and Media from 2010. n 2010, he
unsuccessfully ran against Norbert Röttgen for the post of CDU Chairman
in the state.
When Röttgen resigned from that office in 2012,
Laschet was elected as his successor. On 4th December, 2012, he was
elected as one of five deputy chairpersons of the National CDU Party,
serving alongside Volker Bouffier, Julia Klöckner, Thomas Strobl and
Ursula von der Leyen. Since 27th June, 2017, Laschet has been the 11th
Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia. As one of his state's
representatives at the Bundesrat, he serves on the Committee on Foreign
Affairs and the Defence Committee.
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state in Germany, with 17.5
million inhabitants, located in the west of the country. It consists of
two historically independent parts - Nordrhein, the urbanized area
across the river Rhine in the southwest, and Westfalen in the northeast,
which is quite diverse as it includes both the heavy industrialized and
densely populated Ruhr Valley and the very green Teutoburg Forest.
The region contains several of the most-often visited cities of
Germany, both for business and pleasure. Here you can find numerous
headquarters of Germany's large and mid-sized corporations, European
outposts of Asian and American multinationals, as well as world-renowned
factories. Many of the globally important trade fairs take place in
Düsseldorf and Cologne, the latter is also a major cultural centre. The
beautiful historic city of Bonn was West Germany's de facto capital
until 1990 and still contains many federal institutions, both
governmental and cultural.
With the large population accumulated
within a small area, as well as equally sizeable tourist traffic, North
Rhine-Westphalia possesses the appropriate transportation
infrastructure, with three major international airports and a very
efficient - if sometimes overcrowded - railway and motorway network. NRW
as it is frequently abbreviated, also contains the first "cycle
highway" of Germany which is planned to grow to over 100 km of fully
grade separated extra broad cycle route. Accommodation and gastronomic
opportunities are aplenty as well. There is always a lot going on and
getting between destinations is easy and quick.
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