2023-11-07 17:40:23
In a video widely shared on social networks, the foreign ministers of different European countries stand in a row for an official photo. The rather banal scene took place in Berlin on November 2, during a conference on the enlargement of the European Union. Suddenly, Croatian Gordan Grlic-Radman leans towards his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock to kiss her as they shake hands. The politician, visibly embarrassed and unwilling, immediately turns her face away.
???? Croatian minister tried to kiss German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at EU ministerial summit in Berlin – Bild
Baerbock instantly turned away and there was only cheek-to-cheek contact.
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For some, this forced kiss is reminiscent of the one imposed by Spaniard Luis Rubiales on footballer Jenni Hermoso during the Women’s World Cup final on August 20. A completely inappropriate gesture which cost the former boss of Spanish football his job. ” From [ce scandale]everyone should know that it is better not to kiss a woman (or a man) without asking her permission”protests the German daily “ Die Tageszeitung ” so that he’” assault “ falls under the “pure sexism”. The tabloid Bild », one of the most read in Germany, put the incident on the front page with and speaks in the title of a “kiss attack”.
Excuses that don’t convince
The German environmental minister did not comment on what the Berlin newspaper renamed the “kiss-gate”. Gordan Grlic-Radman apologized in the columns of the Croatian daily “ Evening paper ». “We ministers, ministers, always cordially greethe justified himself, If anyone saw anything wrong with it, then I apologize to whoever took it that way.. » In Germany, these excuses did not convince the newspaper “Die Tageszeitung” which described them as too “terse than hypocritical” considering that the minister’s gesture has a “political dimension” undeniable.
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The controversy also provokes reactions in Croatia. Former Prime Minister Jadranka Josor protested on X (formerly Twitter) on November 3: “Kissing a woman violently is also called violence, right? »
Kissing women violently is also called violence, right?
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