Annalena Baerbock

MR HEUSGEN: (In progress) Antonio, you asked if I was to invite you again next year. Yes, you are invited, and you have a standing invitation. This, of course, has to do with the fact that not only Wolfgang spent his first time of his career in New York on the 31st floor; I spent the last four years while I’ve – in my career as Germany’s ambassador to the United Nations, and it was really a great pleasure to work with you under very difficult circumstances.

Just one month into taking up her office as Germany’s new foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock has her work cut out. At stake: nothing less than the attempt to stop the outbreak of war between Russia and the west. The news outlet Der Spiegel called her meeting this week with...

FOREIGN MINISTER BAERBOCK: (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, dear Tony, very warm welcome once again. And in an official manner, I warmly welcome you to Berlin. Can you hear the interpreter? Can you hear the interpreter? Can anyone hear the interpreter?. (In English.) Now we know German and English. SECRETARY...

SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good afternoon. Foreign Minister Baerbock, we had a terrific first meeting in Liverpool and it’s really a pleasure to welcome you to Washington, to the United States for the first time in your new role as foreign minister. We know that the close relationship between Germany...

SECRETARY BLINKEN: I just want to say how wonderful it is to be here with the foreign minister. We had a chance to speak on the phone immediately upon her assuming the – assuming office, but this is our first chance to actually connect in person. The relationship, the partnership between our countries is so vital, and we have a lot to talk about. I think you probably found what I found when I took on these responsibilities – the inbox is pretty high. But we’re very glad to be working so closely with you, with the chancellor on some – the many things that we have on our agenda. So very good to be with you.

Green party co-leader Annalena Baerbock is to become Germany's first woman foreign minister, her party announced Thursday, as the country's incoming coalition government takes shape. The incoming government's coalition pact includes promises to spend heavily on climate protection and infrastructure while sticking to Germany's self-imposed debt limits.

The Green chancellor candidate is trying to bring voters around to her sweeping change platform ahead of Sept. 26 elections

German-Russian energy ties are more entrenched than just Nord Stream 2, but can the urgency of climate change give Baerbock the boost she needs?

Baerbock, who is forty, would be the youngest chancellor in the history of the Federal Republic. She would also be the most left-wing Chancellor Germany has ever seen.

(CNN) — Cast an eye over the candidates hoping to succeed Angela Merkel as German Chancellor, and one of the phrases most often used by political pundits describing the Green party's nominee Annalena Baerbock is: "A breath of fresh air." Among a lineup of gray-haired middle-aged men vying for the...

The Greens' popularity has risen in recent years and the polls now have them as only a few percentage points behind Merkel's CDU party, as more and more voters turn to climate-related topics. Baerbock and Robert Habeck, co-leaders of the party, seem to have united and disciplined members like no...

Germany’s Green party has named its co-chair Annalena Baerbock as candidate for chancellor in autumn’s federal election, as the party rides high in the polls and the ruling conservative bloc squabbles over its own choice to succeed Angela Merkel. Baerbock, 40, viewed as a tenacious, down-to earth centrist with an...

For the first time in their party's four-decade history, the German Greens have announced a candidate to run as chancellor. Equally historic is the central role the Greens will play in September's general election. On Monday, the Green Party announced that 40-year-old Annalena Baerbock would be its choice to take...