A foreign activist is to shape German climate policy in the future. Annalena Baerbock made a serious mistake by appointing Greenpeace boss Jennifer Morgan as state secretary, commented Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis.
The Germans are eyeing suspiciously the first steps their new Green Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, is making on the international stage. Ironically, the 41-year-old young professional has the task of having to manage the worst European crisis since the end of the Cold War – and she doesn’t cut a bad figure in the process. Not even the opposition found any reason to complain. Until now. That has now changed: With the appointment of the American head of Greenpeace International, Jennifer Morgan, as State Secretary at the Federal Foreign Office, Baerbock is about to make the first serious mistake of her term in office.
The Greens have to make a choice
You can’t believe your ears: in the future, a foreign activist should shape and represent German climate policy internationally, weigh up conflicting interests and help bring about decisions that benefit Germany and the Germans – and not just the global climate. The brutal procedure, which is expensive for the taxpayer, shows how crooked the later career of the lobbyist Morgan is and how vulnerable Baerbock’s decision is. Imagine the clamor in the Greens if FDP Transport Minister Wissing were to promote the (German) ADAC boss to his ministry head.
The new leader of the Greens, Ricarda Lang, caused a frown when she approved of illegal autobahn blockades in Berlin and other cities by climate activists. The Greens have to make a decision: do they want to be the governing party? Or do they want to hand over the state that they (also) lead to the lobbyists? Or do they even aim to use the means of the extra-parliamentary opposition to undermine the policy agreed upon in coalition compromises wherever it suits them? If that is what they want, they will soon see the middle class turning away from them in droves. Because that’s not what they were elected for.
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