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Annalena Baerbock stands for a feminist foreign policy – is she sending signals to Friedrich Merz?Image: www.imago-images.de
CDU leader Friedrich Merz laughed about it, waved it off, just wanted no money from the federal budget to be paid for it: We are talking about feminist foreign policy. When the German Bundestag discussed the budget for the armed forces debated, Merz commented disparagingly on the plans of Federal Foreign Minister Annalena-Baerbock (Greens).
Merz said at the time:
“You can do feminist foreign policy, you can do feminist development aid policy – you can do all that. But not with this budget for the Bundeswehr.”
Friedrich Merz made fun of feminist foreign policy.Image: www.imago-images.de / imago images
In April, Baerbock rebuked the CDU leader and opposition leader Merz with a moving counter-speech. Now, around five months later, Baerbock is going one step further on the subject of feminist foreign policy.
On Monday, Baerbock has colleagues from different countries visiting. The German Foreign Minister invited colleagues from Rwanda, Mexico, Albania, Luxembourg, Norway and Sweden to the “Shaping Feminist Foreign Policy” conference.
And Baerbock did on Instagram once again very clearly how important this concern is to her – and what she says to critics.
In an Instagram story she writes:
“I can’t remember how often I’ve been asked lately why we need a feminist foreign policy at all. By colleagues in the Bundestag, by journalists, but also by many people in the country.”
It is interesting that it does not change for the members of the Bundestag when it speaks of journalists, but it does. Is that a nod to Friedrich Merz with the fence post?
In her story, Baerbock gives three examples of why she is so strongly in favor of feminist foreign policy:
- Afghanistan
“There are the Afghan girls. They stand in front of closed school doors. The doors remain closed for a whole generation of girls and women in Afghanistan.” - mali
“And there’s the mother in Mali, I met her there in April. She told me that she no longer dares to go to the market to sell the few goods she has. She’s afraid of being abducted or raped.” - parliaments worldwide
“And finally, let’s take a look at our parliaments, which represent our society. We can start with ourselves, in the German Bundestag: only a third of the members of parliament are women. Worldwide, only one in four seats in parliament is occupied by a woman.”
Strike against Friedrich Merz?
These examples alone show why a feminist foreign policy is overdue, writes Baerbock on Instagram. “She’s just a no-brainer.”
A screenshot from Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s story.Image: Instagram – Annalena Baerbock / Screenshot
A “no-brainer” loosely translated means something like “a piece of cake”, something that doesn’t require a lot of mental effort. Is this also a signal to Friedrich Merz and to all critics of your project?
At least Baerbock wants to make it clear: For them it is absolutely clear that a feminist foreign policy is needed – and also why. And that their critics probably have trouble thinking if they don’t get the point.
With the help of the conference at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Baerbock says he wants to use the expertise of other countries. Guidelines for a feminist foreign policy are being drawn up.
“We want to learn from others who are further along than we are,” she writes.
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