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Annalena Baerbock has agreed on a code word with her children

Annalena Baerbock has agreed on a code word with her children

As Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock is rarely at home. However, she is always available for her children – thanks to a code word.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) drops everything when one of her daughters texts her with a certain code word. “If she sends that to me, then I know: Now it’s very urgent. Then I leave every session and call her,” said Baerbock on Thursday’s Sat.1 program “Kannste reign?”. Luckily, that hasn’t happened yet. The politician did not reveal the code word.

Annalena Baerbock talks to students

For the show, Baerbock visited 17 students from all over Germany in a Berlin classroom. The student Mia asked how she stayed in touch with her children. The answer of the Green politician: Every Wednesday – that is, on the days when the cabinet meets in Berlin and she is usually not traveling around the world – she tries to be home for dinner.

Because of the many trips, the minister says she also communicates a lot with her children via cell phone. The older of her two daughters already has a smartphone and also sends her messages. “And the little one makes an audio message because she can’t write that well yet,” said Baerbock.

The TV children aged 8 and 14 also asked Baerbock more serious questions: It was about the war in Ukraine, her meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov or one of her core issues, feminist foreign policy. In addition, Baerbock had to recognize countries on a world map and dance with the children to the Tiktok hit “Jiggle Jiggle”.

In addition to Baerbock, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) also visited the children. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) invited the school group to the Chancellery. The format is a sequel to the political documentary “Kannste Kanzleramt?”. In addition to Scholz and Baerbock, the then candidate for chancellor of the Union, Armin Laschet, answered the children’s questions in last year’s federal election campaign. The new show was taped in August.

Source: Stern

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