EMBASSY CELEBRATES THE 127TH ANNIVERSARY OF PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE AND NATIONHOOD

2 JULY 2025. The Philippine Embassy in Berlin held a reception for the diplomatic corps and partner institutions and companies on 2 July 2025 to celebrate the 127th Anniversary of Philippine Independence and Nationhood.  

Held at the Waldorf Astoria Berlin, the reception was graced by Director General for Asia and the Pacific in the Federal Foreign Office of Germany Frank Hartmann and former Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to Germany Delia D. Albert.  

In her opening remarks, Ambassador Natividad hailed the strong bilateral relations between the Philippines and Germany that span 70 years and marked in recent years by high-level engagements in the areas of regional security, climate action, renewable energy, trade, investment, agriculture, labor mobility, science and technology, culture and tourism.

Ambassador Natividad shared that the Philippines will take center stage in the 2025 Frankfurter Buchmesse in October 2025 as Guest of Honor Country.   “The Philippine Pavillion in Frankfurt will be filled with our stories as a nation and as a people under the theme The Imagination Peoples the Air.   We invite you to Frankfurt to listen to our stories,  and they are as many, as beautiful, and as diverse as our 7,641 islands,”  she said.

For his part, Director General Hartmann congratulated the Philippines on the 127th anniversary of its independence and nationhood.  He said that the decades-long “close and vibrant partnership” between the Philippines and Germany is also a cause for celebration.  He described the year 2025 as “a very active political year” in the bilateral relations between both countries.

Guests from the diplomatic corps, German government, business, NGOs and the academia attended the celebration and sampled chicken adobo, buchi and refreshing cocktails with Filipino rum and ube liqueur.  END