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Berlin Is there a strange beast up to mischief in the Foreign Office (AA)? That’s the thought one might get from listening to Christian Wagner, one of the Foreign Ministry spokesmen, earlier this year. “There is a beautiful monster in the Foreign Office that calls itself a ‘uniform transfer date’,” he said at the federal press conference at the time. It was meant ironically.
The fact is: In other federal ministries, civil servants are transferred throughout the year. Only those who work at the AA headquarters on Werderscher Markt or in one of the German representations around the world have to deal with the fact that they have to move from one post to another throughout their professional life, usually after three to four years .
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