German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will travel to the Philippines for a three-day state visit from June 15 to 17, marking the first such visit by a German head of state since West German president Heinrich Lübke went in 1963. Steinmeier is expected to hold bilateral talks with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. covering defence, maritime cooperation, trade, climate change, and the Philippines' current chairship of ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a ten-member regional bloc). The visit underscores deepening ties between the two countries — Germany is the Philippines' largest EU investment partner — and follows a 2025 defence cooperation agreement expanding joint work on cybersecurity, armaments, and UN peacekeeping.