TOUR OF DUTY:
If it’s Tuesday...
Barack Obama embarks on Tuesday on an eight-day visit to Europe – his first major overseas trip as US president. The busy itinerary includes:
●Tuesday evening: the president arrives at Stansted airport, north of London
●Wednesday: breakfast with Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, at Downing Street; bi-lateral meetings with Dmitry Medvedev of Russia and Hu Jintao of China; private meeting with Queen Elizabeth II
●Thursday: G20 meeting, London
●Friday: flight to Strasbourg, meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy of France; helicopter to Baden-
Baden, meeting with Angela Merkel, German chancellor
●Saturday: meeting with Nato leaders in Germany and France
●Sunday: Prague, EU-US summit
●Monday: Turkey, two-day visit to Istanbul and Ankara
