Schneider's glasses

My Annalena Baerbock

Annalena Baerbock keeps making headlines. Is the German Foreign Minister pushing herself too far into the limelight?

(Bild: APA/dpa/Michael Kappeler)

German minister Annalena Baerbock is omnipresent with her "feminist foreign policy". However, "Krone" columnist Robert Schneider is not a particularly big fan of the Green politician. 

I can really work myself up over German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. Rarely have I seen a political personality who plays herself into the media spotlight in such an unnecessary, uncalled for and uncalled for way. Whether she's raining rose petals on Gandhi's tomb, lighting a candle in an Orthodox Ukrainian church, turning up uninvited in Israel and of course only being received by the second tier of politicians - the Germans were just what we needed! -whether she is posing in front of a fighter jet laughing brightly as an armorer or her government plane cannot take off from Brazil due to a breakdown.

Baerbock is always there where she is definitely not needed, spouting nonsense that almost makes you feel ashamed. After the Hamas massacre, she immediately invited herself to Israel and expressed her deepest sympathy. Since the Israeli government has not been able to exact enough revenge and retribution and a rethink towards a solution for the Palestinian people has been taking place, she has also been babbling in this direction. Something like this: although she is completely on Israel's side and firmly rejects anti-Semitism anyway, the Palestinian issue must finally be resolved. Of course, she is in no way defending Hamas ...

With a smart outfit to Ukraine
If Ms. Baerbock is not in the media for two weeks, she has to go on a business trip. Where to? Let's say to Ukraine for a change. There, she and an army of journalists were offered the imposing backdrop of a bombed-out block of houses for a press conference. The Green politician then stomped over the iron reinforcements lying around in a smart outfit and ankle boots with stiletto heels.

I thought she was just plain stupid again and had to think of another Green foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, who in 2003 decidedly opposed the Iraq war of Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell and risked a direct confrontation with NATO partner the USA.