He is "looking forward" to getting to know the new German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, said Luxembourg's head of department Xavier Bettel. “I have already wished him good luck by text message - and steady nerves." And Finland's top diplomat Elina Valtonen added that she was pleased that Germany once again had "a government capable of taking action."

Many participants at the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Warsaw expressed similar sentiments when asked about their new counterpart from Berlin. For Johann Wadephul, the meeting was his first EU-level dialogue since taking office.

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His predecessor, the Green politician Annalena Baerbock, sometimes spoke as if she had memorized her statements by heart, whereas Wadephul spoke to the EU press in a calm, self-confident way from Paris.

He came to

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