Annalena Baerbock will take over the Foreign Ministry in the new government.
Difficult tasks await with trouble spots like Belarus, China and Russia.
Berlin - The Greens achieved the best result in federal elections in their party history.
The former candidate for Chancellor Annalena Baerbock is also making history: she will hold the office of Foreign Minister in the future and will thus become Germany's first female foreign minister.
It starts from a difficult position, so the political expert Christian Mölling in an interview with
ntv
.
He sees important foreign policy issues in Belarus, in the transatlantic relationship and in the relationship with China.
Political expert Mölling: "Foreign policy has not been done in the Foreign Ministry alone for a long time!"
Christian Mölling, political expert from the German Society for Foreign Policy, describes
the starting position of the future Foreign Ministry
in an interview with
ntv
- completely independent of Annalena Baerbock's personalities. "First of all, you have to see that in the past 16 years the Chancellery has actually become the second foreign ministry because it has attracted many of the important dossiers". In some cases there was no other way because it was crisis-driven, says Mölling. The Foreign Ministry is now starting “at minus ten, not zero.” The question is whether the Chancellery is ready to give up power. "That also depends on Olaf Scholz's style of government," said Mölling.
At the same time, the political expert also emphasizes that foreign policy has long ceased to be made only in the Foreign Ministry or the Chancellery.
"If you want to do foreign policy effectively, then you also have to do economic policy and technology policy." As a result, the Foreign Office has a major task of networking all those policies that have to do with foreign policy, explains Mölling.
Annalena Baerbock as Foreign Minister: "Greens have the toughest foreign policy stance"
During the current election campaign, the Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock was interpreted as a disadvantage because of her lack of government experience. The fact that she is a woman does not make her position any easier, because every step is viewed twice as critically. Hate comments against Annalena Baerbock are around six times more frequent on the net than against the candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet and more than eight times more than against Olaf Scholz, the
Spiegel
found. A clear agenda is needed in the Foreign Ministry, said political expert Christian Mölling.
On this point, he sees Annalena Baerbock well positioned in party politics: "With a view to normative or value-oriented foreign policy, the Greens have the clearest agenda," continues the political expert. In his opinion, the green party would also have the toughest and strongest foreign policy stance, insofar as Mölling sees that a green foreign ministry will represent a clear stand. The foreign policy agenda is not waiting for Germany, said Mölling. Not only with regard to the imminent crises in Belarus or in relation to China, the Foreign Ministry is starting at minus ten, but there is also a lot to do overall. "But that is also an opportunity to have an impact and to give foreign policy a green stamp," Mölling sums up.
In the Belarus crisis, Annalena Baerbock had already taken a clear stance before the announcement of her new role, and her course in relation to China is also clear.
In general, the green foreign policy stands for "peace, human rights, the protection of the climate and the environment, a fair globalization and a rule-based cooperative world order", as it is called in the party program.
The Greens are committed to NATO and are committed to an EU capable of acting.
