It was an internship in Washington, at the foreign office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNS), that led Johanna Hans to her current employer. „I was always interested in the question of European relations with these countries during the foreign stations,“ she recounts in conversation. From 2016, she was a European Dialogue Officer, and for the past year, the 33-year-old has been Head of Unit Europe at the FNS. Two staff members work to support her.