Piyush Goyal Ends Germany Visit With Berlin Industry Meetings

Union Commerce and Industry Minister Shri Piyush Goyal completed a two-day official visit to Germany with a round of engagements in Berlin on 23 October 2026. He met senior German government officials, business leaders, research institutions and members of the Indian diaspora. Trade, investment, advanced manufacturing, research and emerging technologies were the subjects on the table.

The bilateral meeting at the Chancellery

At the German Federal Chancellery the minister held a bilateral meeting with Mr Levin Holle, Economic and Financial Policy Advisor and G7/G20 Sherpa. The two discussed bilateral economic cooperation and ways of deepening economic and investment ties between the two countries.

Meetings with company chiefs

Separate meetings were held with three business leaders:

These meetings looked at widening business partnerships, investment and industrial cooperation between India and Germany.

Research and the Fraunhofer roundtable

The minister took part in a roundtable with the leaders of major German industrial research institutions on cooperation in advanced industrial technologies and innovation. He also held a roundtable with the heads of selected Fraunhofer Institutes, covering microelectronics, power electronics, logistics, smart manufacturing, industrial innovation and battery technologies, where avenues for research collaboration and industry-academia partnership were examined. He met Indian science and technology researchers and students based in Germany as part of the same engagement with the research and innovation ecosystem.

Business delegation and diaspora

Members of the accompanying Indian business delegation joined sectoral roundtables with German industry representatives and sectoral associations to look for openings in bilateral business collaboration. Shri Goyal also interacted with members of the Indian diaspora in Berlin and addressed the media. Taken together, the engagements underlined the widening scope of the India-Germany Strategic Partnership, particularly in trade, investment, advanced manufacturing, science and technology, research and industrial cooperation.