Germany’s foreign minister Annalena Baerbock of The Greens party has called for more migrants to come to her country.

Connecting the low birthrate in Germany with the need for new people to fill the void, she made her comments at the reopening of the German embassy in Damascus, Syria.

“Germany is a country with not a very strong birth rate so we need migrants, otherwise our country will not be running in the future anymore. Therefore we also need people who speak German. Unfortunately, it is not the most easy language in the world. That is why we have an interest worldwide in having German schools and German universities”, - Baerbock said.

She is set to become UN General Assembly President in 2025/26, after having usurped Helga Schmid, a seasoned diplomat initially nominated for the role, in a move some observers called “shameless”.