Tuesday, June 8th 2021
“That was crap”
Baerbock comments for the first time on the résumé
Did the green candidate for chancellor want to spruce up her career a little? For the first time Baerbock declares himself to the discrepancies and chooses a characteristic expression for it: crap. The green top politicians Habeck and Hofreiter, on the other hand, speak of bogus and strange debates.
Green leader Annalena Baerbock has apologized for misleading information in her own résumé. “I published my curriculum vitae in a concise and condensed manner and in the process unintentionally created a misleading impression that I did not want to create,” said the candidate for chancellor of her party in Berlin. “That was crap.”
Baerbock referred in particular to imprecise information on membership in organizations. On Thursday she had listed the transatlantic foundation German Marshall Fund and the UN refugee agency UNHCR. The page was later changed, the title is now “Advisory boards, (sponsorship) memberships, regular support” instead of “Memberships”. “I’m sorry, and it was far from intended,” said Baerbock. “It absolutely needed a thorough check of the information. That is my responsibility, and I have now learned that lesson, we have now learned.”
Brussels versus Potsdam
Baerbock said nothing about the most recent correction in her résumé. Because of her many years as office manager of the green MEP Elisabeth Schroedter, there had been inquiries from “Welt”. In her résumé, Baerbock wrote that she worked for Schroedter in Brussels from 2005 to 2008. According to the newspaper, however, a different representation was found on Schroedter’s website. After that, Baerbock only managed the offices in Berlin and Potsdam until August 2007. Only later did she work in Brussels and Strasbourg. The Greens only changed this impression of many years of international activity after receiving critical information on the website of their candidate for chancellor.
In the morning, the co-party leader of the Greens, Robert Habeck, said in the “ntv early start” that the debate about the repeated adjustments was now probably over. Little things were fluffed up to bogus. Instead of “corrections” in the curriculum vitae, he preferred to speak of “clarifications”. “I assume: now it’s good too,” said Habeck.
“No ban on short-haul flights”
In a substantive dispute, the chairman of the Green parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Anton Hofreiter, jumped to the side. Hofreiter made it clear that his party does not want to ban short-haul flights. Baerbock’s statements were made in a “strange debate” about a ban that she never spoke out in favor of, Hofreiter said in an online question and answer session at the 20th annual conference of the Council for Sustainable Development.
What was meant was rather the requirement to upgrade rail traffic in such a way that short-haul flights would be superfluous, explained Hofreiter. “We want to make mobility possible – but CO2-free.” Unfortunately, it has been neglected in the past few years to make rail traffic correspondingly attractive. In an interview with “Bild am Sonntag” in May, Green Chancellor candidate Baerbock declared that short-haul flights “should no longer exist in the future”. There was strong criticism of the proposal – from the Union and FDP, among others.
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