Two government Airbuses to be scrapped after Annalena Baerbock was unable to get to Australia
The cancellation of an official visit by Germany’s foreign minister to Oceania after her government plane twice developed a fault has drawn widespread scorn and derision and led to calls for change.
The German tabloid Bild called Annalena Baerbock’s “50-hour odyssey” a “disgrace” and a “humiliation” for Germany and said it could result in the rest of the world no longer taking Europe’s largest economy seriously.
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