01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (M, BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), German Foreign Minister, stands behind munitions found in the Baltic Sea at the Baltic Sea Council meeting in the port of Wismar with Tobias Billström (r), Foreign Minister of Sweden, and Lars Løkke Rasmussen (l), Foreign Minister of Denmark. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (M, BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), German Foreign Minister, stands behind ammunition remnants from the Baltic Sea in the port of Wismar, which she discusses with her counterparts from the Baltic Sea countries. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further reactions to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), German Foreign Minister, speaks to her counterparts from the Baltic Sea countries behind ammunition remnants in the port of Wismar. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), German Foreign Minister, stands next to ammunition remnants from the Baltic Sea in the port of Wismar. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the salvage of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (M, BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), German Foreign Minister, stands behind ammunition remnants from the Baltic Sea in the port of Wismar, which she discusses with her counterparts from the Baltic Sea countries. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further reactions to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, stands in the harbor of Wismar behind ammunition remnants from the Baltic Sea, which she is discussing with her counterparts from the Baltic Sea countries. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further reactions to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), German Foreign Minister, walks past ammunition remnants from the Baltic Sea in the port of Wismar. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies, and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Tobias Billström (l), Foreign Minister of Sweden, Thordis Kolbrun Reykfjörd Gylfadottir (m), Foreign Minister of Iceland, and Lars Løkke Rasmussen (r), Foreign Minister of Denmark, stand in the port of Wismar at the Council of the Baltic Sea States meeting. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Andris Pelss, (l.t.r.) State Secretary from Latvia, Thordis Kolbrun Reykfjörd Gylfadottir, Foreign Minister of Iceland, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Foreign Minister of Denmark, Manuela Schwesig (SPD), the Minister President of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Tobias Billström, Foreign Minister of Sweden, Annalena Baerbock (BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), Federal Foreign Minister, and Klara Geywitz (SPD), Federal Minister of Construction and Housing, walk to the meeting venue in the port of Wismar at the start of the Council of the Baltic Sea States meeting. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the salvage of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Andris Pelss, (l.t.r.) State Secretary from Latvia, Thordis Kolbrun Reykfjörd Gylfadottir, Foreign Minister of Iceland, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Foreign Minister of Denmark, Manuela Schwesig (SPD), Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Tobias Billström, Foreign Minister of Sweden, and Annalena Baerbock (BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), German Foreign Minister, walk to the meeting venue in the port of Wismar at the start of the Council of the Baltic Sea States meeting. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (M, BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), Germany's Foreign Minister, stands in the port of Wismar at the Council of the Baltic Sea States meeting with Thordis Kolbrun Reykfjörd Gylfadottir (l), Foreign Minister of Iceland, Johanna Sumuvuori (2nd from left.), State Secretary to the Foreign Minister of Finland, Gabrielius Landsbergis (3rd from left), the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, and Manuela Schwesig (5th from left), the Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and other conference participants behind munitions found in the Baltic Sea. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of munitions and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (M, BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), Germany's Foreign Minister, stands in the port of Wismar at the Council of the Baltic Sea States meeting with Thordis Kolbrun Reykfjörd Gylfadottir (l), Foreign Minister of Iceland, Johanna Sumuvuori (2nd from left.), State Secretary to the Foreign Minister of Finland, Gabrielius Landsbergis (3rd from left), the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, and Manuela Schwesig (5th from left), the Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and other conference participants behind munitions found in the Baltic Sea. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of munitions and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Moldova, Bulboaca: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) gives a press conference after the European Political Community (EPC) summit in Moldova. The EPG was founded last year on French initiative. Its purpose is to bring European and Near Eastern states that are not members of the European Union closer to the EU. It has 47 members, including the candidate countries Ukraine, Moldova and Turkey, the applicant country Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa

01 June 2023, Moldova, Bulboaca: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) leaves the press conference after the European Political Community (EPC) summit in Moldova. The EPC was founded last year on French initiative. Its purpose is to bring European and Near Eastern states that are not members of the European Union closer to the EU. It has 47 members, including the candidate countries Ukraine, Moldova and Turkey, the applicant country Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (M, BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), Germany's foreign minister, stands behind munitions found in the Baltic Sea at the Baltic Sea Council meeting in the port of Wismar. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies, and the recovery of munitions and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (M, BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), German Foreign Minister, stands behind munitions found in the Baltic Sea at the Baltic Sea Council meeting in the port of Wismar with Johanna Sumuvuori (l.), State Secretary to the Foreign Minister of Finland, Gabrielius Landsbergis (2nd from left), Lithuanian Foreign Minister, and Manuela Schwesig (r, SPD), Minister President of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (r, BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), German Foreign Minister, speaks with Klara Geywitz (l, SPD), German Federal Minister for Building and Housing, at the port of Wismar during a meeting with counterparts from the Baltic Sea countries. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the salvage of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (M, BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), German Foreign Minister, stands in the port of Wismar at the Council of the Baltic Sea States meeting with Thordis Kolbrun Reykfjörd Gylfadottir (l), Foreign Minister of Iceland, Johanna Sumuvuori (2nd from left.), State Secretary to the Foreign Minister of Finland, Gabrielius Landsbergis (2nd from right), the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, and Manuela Schwesig (SPD), the Minister President of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, behind munitions found in the Baltic Sea. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: The foreign ministers of the Council of the Baltic Sea States stand in front of a World War 1 water mine in the port of Wismar. The eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the salvage of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: The foreign ministers of the Council of the Baltic Sea States stand in front of a World War 1 water mine in the port of Wismar. The eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the salvage of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen) (l-r), Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Manuela Schwesig, Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Klara Geywitz, Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development before the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States. The eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), German Foreign Minister, welcomes her counterparts to the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States. The eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen) (M), Germany's foreign minister, stands with her counterparts in the port of Wismar for a group photo. The eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies, and the salvage of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Annalena Baerbock (BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen) (l-r), Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Manuela Schwesig (SPD), Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Klara Geywitz (SPD), Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development before the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States. The eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the salvage of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Johanna Sumuvuori, State Secretary to the Foreign Minister of Finland (l-r), Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Foreign Minister of Denmark, Manuela Schwesig (SPD), Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Tobias Billström, Foreign Minister of Sweden, Annalena Baerbock (BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Klara Geywitz (SPD), Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Construction, and Thordis Kolbrun Reykfjörd Gylfadottir, Foreign Minister of Iceland before the Council of the Baltic Sea States meeting. The eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies, and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa

01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Johanna Sumuvuori, State Secretary to the Foreign Minister of Finland (l-r), Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Foreign Minister of Denmark, Manuela Schwesig, Minister President of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Tobias Billström, Foreign Minister of Sweden, Annalena Baerbock (BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Klara Geywitz, Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Construction, and Thordis Kolbrun Reykfjörd Gylfadottir, Foreign Minister of Iceland before the Council of the Baltic Sea States meeting. The eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, enhancing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa