“The security of Eastern Europe is Germany’s security”

Despite controversial issues such as Warsaw’s demands for reparations, Foreign Minister Baerbock emphasizes the “common future” of Germany and Poland. With a view to the war in Ukraine, she uttered a remarkable sentence.

AIn Warsaw, nnalena Baerbock called for people to look to the future, despite the war in Ukraine, despite Poland’s demands for reparations from Germany and other controversial German-Polish issues. “The good news is that we have a common future,” said the Foreign Minister on Tuesday after meeting her Polish counterpart, Zbigniew Rau. “There can’t be as much separating us as connecting us!”

At the reception of the German Embassy on the Day of German Unity on Monday evening, she said remarkable sentences in front of hundreds of guests. They actually contained things that were taken for granted, but during Russia’s war of aggression they sounded completely new. Perhaps they will go down in history as the Baerbock Doctrine. With a view to the 1980s and the Polish citizens’ movement Solidarność (“without Solidarność there would have been no fall of the wall in our country”) she made a solemn promise to all “allies and neighbors”. Literally, Baerbock said: “Just as you were there for us, we will now be there for you. That applies to Ukraine, but it also applies to Poland. We will be there for you just as you were there for us when we needed you most. Because the security of Eastern Europe is Germany’s security. You can count on that.” The EU praised them extensively as “our common life insurance” without even mentioning NATO in their speech.