That Annalena #Baerbock has a 74% approval rating for her handling of the #Ukraine war (it’s a war, @ZDF, not a crisis) is remarkable, esp compared to #Scholz’ dismal 50%. 
Germans’ support for “heavy weapons like tanks” deliveries to #Ukraine continues to be high, though I would have hoped this to be north of 60%. SPD scaremongering has a price.
Support for Ukraine’s #EU membership, however, is surprisingly high, at 62%. The German public, IIRC, was never a big fan of enlargement. Enlargement to Ukraine would be a big deal for the EU.
In 2004, 59% of Germans were against #EU enlargement to the East as it would be "too early". Most feared unemployment (which was very high in Germany at the time) and more crime. Source: spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…
In the same poll from 2004, 63% were against EU enlargement to #Turkey, though other polls at the time found a 50/50 split, depending on how the question was phrased.
Just in early February, a prominent German journalist called #Baerbock "this young lady" when she visited Ukraine's Eastern front as Germany's first foreign minister, and implying that she is not up for the job.
Though I am still fully in favour of calling people born in 1980 "young".
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