Former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin shared a series of photographs from a visit to Berlin.
Among the photos is one of the city’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, inaugurated in 2005 and described as “a place of contemplation, a place of remembrance and warning.”
She also visited the German Ministry of Health during her stay in the city.
The trip follows Sanna leaving politics last September to join the Tony Blair Institute.
As Boss of Finlandit’s social A Democrat, Sanna served as Prime Minister between 2019 and 2023, making her the country’s youngest Prime Minister at the time (a now broken record). She has been a member of the Finnish Parliament since 2015.
Former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin (photo) shared a series of photos from a trip to Berlin on Instagram
Sanna (pictured) garnered over 61,000 likes and 820 comments in the first 20 hours after the images were posted.
The series of photos, which garnered some 61,000 likes and 820 comments within 20 hours of being posted, was accompanied by a simple caption.
It simply said: “Berlin” and was followed by a black heart emoji.
His visit comes several weeks after Sanna’s to war-torn Ukraine.
Sanna visited Bucha, the site of the massacre of around 500 Ukrainians at the start of the war in March 2022.
She was in town with the HALO Trust, which works globally to eliminate unexploded landmines. In Ukraine, Marin says about 19,000 explosives have been neutralized since the start of the war with Russia.
During her visit to the war-torn country, the former Finnish prime minister – who was just 34 when she took office in 2019 – also made a brief return to diplomacy by meeting the Prime Ukrainian Minister Denys Shmyhal.
She said: “I had the opportunity to participate in many discussions on the state of the war, reconstruction and Ukraine’s European future.
“It was also very interesting to visit a humanitarian demining site in Bucha, where the international organization HALO Trust works to secure war-torn areas by clearing landmines and other explosives.”
She included an image of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, described as “a place of contemplation, a place of remembrance and warning.”
Dusting off her political hat for a moment, Marin posed for photos with Mr. Shmyhal and spoke with the Finnish ambassador to Ukraine over lunch.
She said: “It was a great honor to meet Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko, Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration Olha Stefanishyna.
“After more than two years of brutal war, the need to attract the attention of the international community is more crucial than ever.
Announcing his resignation from politics, Marin told Finnish TV channel YLE that it was “time to move on.”
“To win the war, Ukraine needs even greater political, financial, economic, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support. Sanctions must be applied.
As Prime Minister of Finland, Marin was one of Europe’s youngest leaders and oversaw his country’s successful bid for formal NATO membership.
Announcing his resignation from politics, Marin told Finnish TV channel YLE that it was “time to move on.”
She said: “I’m looking forward to taking on a new role. I also believe that this can benefit the whole of Finland.
“I believe I can serve these voters (in Finland) well and perhaps even better under this new mission.”