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Matthias Kolb and Paul-Anton Krüger, Berlin / Brussels
Heiko Maas had agreed his successor at the head of the Foreign Office with the sentence “Crisis is day-to-day business”. One day later, Germany’s first female foreign minister is already in the thick of it. “What could be nicer than spending the first morning in the new office in Paris as Foreign Minister?” Said Annalena Baerbock (Greens) at the press conference with her colleague Jean-Yves Le Drian. And that Europe is the linchpin of German foreign policy.