You must see the persons who are in charge-persons you can punish or vote for..

With the arrival of the refugees in 2015, it became impossible to ignore that the period of uninterrupted sunshine that Germany had enjoyed had come ….

There are a lot of active AfD members in Germany and people in party leadership positions who speak like Nazis and think like Nazis. AfD parliamentar….

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political proc….

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries..

The future of the German automobile industry is very much at stake. Will we help shape the upheaval that goes along with the shift to electric cars o….

The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person wh….

Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won t….

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will defi….

I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States..

Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years..

What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, j….

An enlarged Union based on Nice is not in the interest of any Member State ... This is not a threat. This is a messenger delivering news..

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak..

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age.

Solutions must be based on compromises..

We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovere….

We had to move forward after the war and see the realities..

From my own experience in dealing with the Nazi-grandpas, who have now clearly made a return, I would recommend a bit of fundamental imperturbability..

The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line..

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there..