On Friday and Saturday, CDU leader Friedrich Merz will welcome high-ranking visitors to the Konrad Adenauer House: nine Christian Democrat heads of state and government from the EU member states will travel to Berlin, including Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Finland’s Petteri Orpo, Sweden’s Ulf Kristersson and Ireland’s Simon Harris. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will also attend the closed meeting of the EPP party family, now that she has largely recovered from her severe pneumonia, as will EPP party and group leader Manfred Weber and the opposition leaders from the member parties.