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Baerbock Delivers Final Bundestag Speech Warning of AfD Threat Ahead of UNGA Role

Her final address focused on an AfD bill to cut NGO funding, warning of its threat to civil society, reflecting cross-party praise for her foreign policy legacy.

Annalena Baerbock im Deutschen Bundestag.
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Overview

  • Baerbock used her roughly ten-minute farewell speech in the Bundestag on June 27 to denounce an AfD-proposed law aiming to halt state funding for NGOs.
  • She cautioned that the measure would intimidate civil society and could even affect sports organizations, joking that it risked Germany’s chances of another football world title.
  • Her remarks prompted standing ovations from Green deputies and applause from CDU and SPD figures such as Roderich Kiesewetter and Ralf Stegner, highlighting her broad parliamentary respect.
  • The 44-year-old Green veteran is leaving the Bundestag quietly on June 30 without a formal farewell event after twelve years in parliament.
  • Baerbock will begin her one-year term as president of the UN General Assembly in New York this September, a largely ceremonial but high-profile diplomatic post.