Jacinda Ardern heads to Europe to complete ‘reconnection’ plan

Jacinda Ardern heads to Europe to complete ‘reconnection’ plan
Jacinda Ardern meets Japanese PM Fumio Kishida in the first of her three international trips this year. (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
Prime minister Jacinda Ardern will leave the country on Sunday for five days of meetings in London, Brussels and Madrid in the third of three international trips signalled at the beginning of the year to mark New Zealand’s emergence from covid-19 isolation.She will then be in Australia for four days to attend the first Australia-New Zealand Leadership Forum gathering since 2019, before the global pandemic.Unlike her tours to Singapore and Japan in April and the United States in late May and early June, she will not be accompanied by a bus...

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