VIDEO: Croatia’s foreign minister’s awkward EU summit kiss causes controversy

Croatia’s foreign minister sparked controversy by greeting his German counterpart with a kiss, at an EU ministers meeting in Berlin on Thursday.

.He has been criticised in some Croatian media reports, with women’s rights activist Rada Boric describing the incident as “highly inappropriate”.

Grlić-Radman defended the moment as a “warm, human approach to a colleague”. He said it was “maybe an awkward moment” and apologised “to whoever took it that way.”

Ms Baerbock has not commented so far.

💋 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.

Gordan Grlić-Radman has already apologized to the German Foreign Minister for what… pic.twitter.com/5vxyAFYWbb

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