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Not a good day for Germany, says Foreign Minister Baerbock

Not a good day for Germany, says Foreign Minister Baerbock

By Grazia British

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Following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said it was not a good day for Germany.

It is also "not a good day for Europe," the Green Party politician said outside the Chancellery in Berlin late Wednesday.

Europe bears a responsibility for peace on its continent and in Ukraine, Baerbock asserted.

She noted that, in view of the consequences of the war in Ukraine, the government needed to make an exception to the tight set of fiscal rules known as the debt brake.

The debt brake is enshrined in the country's constitution.

The Greens had pushed within the coalition for an exception, but it had not been possible to come to an agreement, she added.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (R) and Co-Chair of the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag Katharina Droege arrive at the Greens' parliamentary group meeting room after the dismissal of Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner by the Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Christoph Soeder/dpaGerman Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (R) and Co-Chair of the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag Katharina Droege arrive at the Greens' parliamentary group meeting room after the dismissal of Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner by the Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Christoph Soeder/dpa

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