Annalena Baerbock: She earns that a lot in her new high job | EUROtoday

Ex-Secretary of State Annalena Baerbock (44, Greens) receives a cost for her work as President of the UN General Assembly in New York in accordance with the grade B9. From the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, it was stated that it was the same old observe that the nation of origin was for remuneration. A service contract with Baerbock was due to this fact concluded with the approval of the cupboard. The grade B9 corresponds to a taxable fundamental wage of a very good 13,000 euros a month with out surcharges.

For the contract with Baerbock, for instance within the occasion of wage or condominium, the rules for workers of the Federal Foreign Office apply overseas. Baerbock’s remuneration corresponded to that of a head of a big international consultant, it stated from the Foreign Ministry.

Baerbock was elected by an awesome majority as the subsequent President of the UN General Assembly. In the occasion of a secret coordination of the United Nations’ largest physique pressured by Russia, it acquired 167 votes – 14 member states abstained. In distinction, seven different international locations in New York spoke out for the unique German candidate Helga Schmid, who was not out there.

The candidacy of the Greens politician had additionally met in Germany as a result of the highest German high diplomatin Schmid needed to make room for her on the final minute.

The high place of Baerbock is primarily connected to protocol importance-it shouldn’t be confused with the function of UN General Secretary António Guterres. The inauguration is on September 9, shortly earlier than the overall debate of the UN General Assembly with state company from all around the world.