Germany’s foreign minister rejected suggestions that Berlin could be browbeaten by U.S. President Donald Trump into hiking military spending, saying that his country would make its own “sovereign” decisions, Reuters reports.

Iranian Foreign Ministry has rejected reports about blocking part of Iran’s assets in Germany.

Following Washington’s pullout from the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, the German government seized a portion of Iran’s foreign exchange assets due to the threat of new US sanctions against Tehran, an Iranian lawmaker said.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that the Ministry has summoned the French and Belgium ambassadors to Iran as well as German charge d'affaires (in absence of envoy) ‎to protest against the arrest of an Iranian diplomat.

Iran Technical and Vocational Training Organization is in talks with Germany and Switzerland to send its trained manpower to the European countries, the head of the organization said.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas says Berlin is prepared to help Iran improve its economy and business ties while Tehran remains committed to a landmark nuclear agreement it signed with major powers in 2015, Press TV reported.

Germany is ready to help minimize the impact on its businesses of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the 2015 Iran nuclear accord, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said on Friday, Reuters reports.

German-Azerbaijani Cultural Center Kapellhaus will host the 9th Festival of Handicrafts on April 20-21.

An exhibition of world-known national artist Margarita Karimova-Sokolova opened in Altes Pfandhaus Cultural Center in Cologne, Germany.

Germany is ready to take part in the development of Kazakhstan’s tourism sector by participating in a number of projects and programs in conjunction with the Kazakh government and experts, said Alexander Stedtfeld, Director of the Department of Tourism Development of the German Ministry of Economics and Energy at the meeting with the Ambassador of Kazakhstan in Germany Bolat Nusupov and other high-ranking representatives of Kazakhstan.