The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland plan to discuss joint approaches to current international challenges on Thursday.
A spokesman for Germany's Foreign Ministry in Berlin announced that the agenda for the meeting, held in the so-called Weimar Triangle format, covers topics ranging from hybrid threats and the situation in the Middle East, to EU enlargement and a reform of EU foreign policy.
Hybrid threats are understood to mean a combination of military, economic, intelligence and propaganda measures, which can be used to influence public opinion. State-sponsored cyberattacks are included in this category.
Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul met his EU counterparts in the Irish town of Wicklow on Wednesday, including his counterparts from France and Poland, Jean-Noël Barrot and Radosław Sikorski.
In Ireland, the focus was on reactions to the German government's attribution of responsibility to Russia for the attempted attack on August 4 at Leipzig airport.
The Weimar Triangle was established in 1991 as a forum for dialogue by the then foreign ministers of the three countries in the central German city of Weimar.
Initially, its primary purpose was to facilitate the integration of Poland and other Eastern European states into the European Union and NATO.
