We will be very persistent when it comes to enforcing freedom, justice, and self-determination on the European continent.
I always used the free room that the G.D.R. allowed me... There was no shadow over my childhood.
Greece wishes to be part of the eurozone, but it must, of course, go through with the necessary reforms to make this happen.
If the euro fails, Europe fails.
We needed 40 years to overcome East Germany. Sometimes in history, one has to be prepared for the long haul and not ask after four months if it still makes sense to keep up our demands.
I come from a country in which I experienced economic collapse.
The way I lived my life, I truly wasn't an active resistance fighter.
I think it has been a tremendous feat on the part of East Germans since 1990 to adapt to everything changing.
After the reunification, there was a certain sense of foreignness because daily life in the former East German states was completely turned inside out - everything from the shops to the bureaucracy to the working world.
This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.
Ukraine must be permitted to bring their own relief supplies safely to areas in the east of the country that are controlled by the separatists.
The goal of our actions is and will remain a sovereign and territorially intact Ukraine that can decide its own future.
If we look at where relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were in 1945 and where we stand now, then we have achieved so much.
The only thing the East German system taught us was that we should never do it that way again.
The West was a wonderful world to me. I decided then that if this is the way they did things, then I wanted to be part of it.
The 'community method' can only be applied in those areas in which the European Union actually has competence. Where the community has no competence, the 'community method' clearly cannot be applied.
We need a really credible perspective toward long-term de-carbonization.
We work well together with the United Kingdom - particularly, perhaps, when we talk about new rules for the European Union.
I personally hope and wish that Britain will stay part and parcel of the European Union.
We have shared responsibility for global climate; we have to reduce climate change below 2 degrees Celsius.
For somebody who comes from Europe, I can only say if we give up this principle of territorial integrity of countries, then we will not be able to maintain the peaceful order of Europe that we've been able to achieve.
We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoah.
There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great.
Free access to the single market will be granted to a country which accepts the four fundamental freedoms of movement of people, goods, services, and capital.
If you wish to have free access to the single market, then you have to accept the fundamental rights as well as obligation that come from it.
There are achievements of European integration that cannot be haggled over: for example the principle of free movement and the principle of non-discrimination.
Former president Wulff said Islam belongs to Germany. That is true. I also hold this opinion.
Whenever I was able to work with Hillary Clinton, it was a great pleasure.
I never felt the GDR was my home country.
We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that.
