{"id":269030,"date":"2020-09-17T06:42:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T10:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=269030"},"modified":"2020-09-17T06:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T10:42:44","slug":"ph-germany-hold-joint-economic-commission-inaugural-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/17\/ph-germany-hold-joint-economic-commission-inaugural-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"PH, Germany hold Joint Economic Commission inaugural meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_269031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269031\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PH-Germany-hold-Joint-Economic-Commission-inaugural-meet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-269031\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PH-Germany-hold-Joint-Economic-Commission-inaugural-meet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PH-Germany-hold-Joint-Economic-Commission-inaugural-meet.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PH-Germany-hold-Joint-Economic-Commission-inaugural-meet-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PH-Germany-hold-Joint-Economic-Commission-inaugural-meet-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PH-Germany-hold-Joint-Economic-Commission-inaugural-meet-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GPCCI president Stefan Schmitz added the business group also remains committed to promoting bilateral business ties between German and Filipino enterprises amid the pandemic. (Pixabay file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippines and Germany held its first Joint Economic Commission (JEC) meeting to boost bilateral relations between the two countries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a statement Thursday, the German-Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GPCCI) said the business group welcomes the JEC inaugural meeting between Manila and Berlin on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The meeting was led by Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Undersecretary Ceferino Rodolfo and German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) Parliamentary State Secretary Marco Wanderwitz.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe enhanced economic cooperation between the Philippines and Germany creates great business opportunities for the mutual benefit of the two countries and for the businesses involved,\u201d GPCCI executive director Martin Henkelmann said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">GPCCI president Stefan Schmitz added the business group also remains committed to promoting bilateral business ties between German and Filipino enterprises amid the pandemic.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Philippine and German governments signed the joint declaration of intent to establish JEC in August 2019.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The inaugural meeting was organized by DTI, BMWi, the Philippine embassy in Berlin, the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business, together with the German Asia-Pacific Business Association and GPCCI.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Last year, bilateral trade between the two countries amounted to EUR6.5 billion, making Germany as the Philippines\u2019 top trading partner among states of the European Union.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippines and Germany held its first Joint Economic Commission (JEC) meeting to boost bilateral relations between the two &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":269031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-kris-crismundo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269032,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269030\/revisions\/269032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}