The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.

- Peer Steinbruck

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

- Peer Steinbruck

There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, bu…

- Peer Steinbruck

The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union …

- Peer Steinbruck

Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce…

- Peer Steinbruck

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the politic…

- Peer Steinbruck

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority…

- Peer Steinbruck

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no lo…

- Peer Steinbruck

If things sometimes get tough, you can't ask yourself what impact it's having on you. It isn't an option.

- Peer Steinbruck