Freedom Does Not Mean Being Free Of

Democracy Must Be Our Answer To Terrorism

So Europe Needs To Be Competitive And We Also Need To Be Competitive If We Wish To Remain An Interesting Economic Partner For The United States. This Has To Be Done On The Basis Of Strength, Of Competitiveness.

Look At The History Of The Printing Press, When This Was Invented What Sort Of Consequences This Had. Or Industrialization, What Sort Of Consequences That Had. Very Often, It Led To Enormous Transformational Processes Within Individual Societies. And It Took Awhile Until Societies Learned How To Find The Right Kind Of Policies To Contain This And Manage And Steer This.

We Have Very Stable Mechanisms Of Conflict Resolution In Terms Of Labor Relations, We Have A Very Good Transportation Infrastructure, We Provide Our Children With An Excellent Education And The Gap Between Rich And Poor In Germany Is Relatively Narrow. On The Other Hand, We Have Trouble Accepting Change.

With Political Means And Always Trying To Work For Political Settlements And This Is What I'm Going To Continue To Work On With All My Heart.