Overview
- Speaking to t-online, Annalena Baerbock called claims that her tenure as Germany’s foreign minister was overly moralizing “total nonsense.”
- She pointed to weapons deliveries to Ukraine, debates over Taurus missiles, Eurofighter procurement decisions, and NATO’s new strategic concept as evidence of hard security policy.
- Baerbock said women who stand out face a second layer of social‑media attacks, invoking skier Lindsey Vonn’s treatment to illustrate gendered double standards.
- Ahead of the Munich Security Conference, she urged greater European self‑confidence, citing the EU’s firm stance in the Greenland dispute as a blueprint to resist pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump and to reduce vulnerability through trade policy.
- Now based in New York as President of the UN General Assembly, she condemned the handling of the Epstein files as “repulsive” and pressed for thorough investigation, stronger victim protection, and scrutiny of elite networks that shield offenders.