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17.04.2024 Article

A week of crisis diplomacy: Foreign Minister Baerbock travels to Capri for the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting

With the Iranian attack on Israel at the weekend, the conflict in the Middle East threatens to spread. The G7 talks will focus on how to stop the escalation spiralling further and prevent a conflagration from taking hold. Find out here what else is on the agenda.

Foreign Minister Baerbock at the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Capri
30.08.2023 Article

The situation in the Sahel region and support for Ukraine – a Gymnich meeting in Toledo

Today, Foreign Minister Baerbock is travelling to an informal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Toledo, Spain. Her Spanish counterpart, Albares Bueno, and the High Representative of the EU, Josep Borrell, will be hosting the gathering, which is being held in what is known as the Gymnich format.

Foreign Minister Baerbock with EU Foreign Affairs Ministers and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba at the Gymnich meeting in Toledo, Spain
02.08.2023 Article

Coup in the Niger: Political situation and evacuation of German nationals

The attempted coup in the Niger is a full-on attack on the young democracy and is jeopardising the country’s future. A political solution now needs to be found quickly so that the country can return to the path of democracy.

Niamey
14.04.2022 Article

Climate crisis and stabilisation in the Sahel – Foreign Minister Baerbock travels to Mali and the Niger

Climate change and terrorist threats – at first, these sound like two major foreign policy issues that have nothing to do with one another. In the Sahel region, however, these two phenomena come together – with dramatic consequences.

Agricultural project for sustainable cultivation in arid conditions, in the refugee settlement in Ouallam
21.02.2022 Article

Coordinating foreign policy in the EU: Minister Baerbock at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels

The predominant issue at today’s meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels will be the European security situation in the wake of the Russian military build-up at the Ukrainian borders

European flags
15.11.2021 Article

Foreign Minister Maas at the meeting of EU Foreign Ministers: Talks focusing on the situation at the border with Belarus

Foreign Minister Maas is travelling to Brussels today for the monthly meeting of the EU’s Foreign Ministers, the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC). This will be followed by further talks and meetings.

Foreign Minister Maas is travelling to Brussels

Press releases

  1. 11.08.2023 Press release

    Foreign Minister Baerbock on the outcome of the ECOWAS summit

  2. 03.05.2023 Press release

    The Federal Government realigns its Sahel policy

  3. 11.04.2022 Press release

    Statement by Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock prior to her departure for Mali and the Niger

  4. 17.02.2022 Press release

    Joint declaration on the fight against the terrorist threat and the support to peace and security in the Sahel and West Africa

  5. 23.12.2021 Press release

    Joint Statement on the deployment of the Wagner group in Mali

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