German - Statesman | July 17, 1954 -
I never felt the GDR was my home country.
Angela Merkel
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Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy.
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Whenever I was able to work with Hillary Clinton, it was a great pleasure.
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Former president Wulff said Islam belongs to Germany. That is true. I also hold this opinion.
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Germany wants peaceful coexistence of Muslims and members of other religions.
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There are achievements of European integration that cannot be haggled over: for example the principle of free movement and the principle of non-discrimination.
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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.
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Here we have the Schengen agreement, and the truth is that for years we trusted each other and set border controls on the outer borders of the European Union. And as was the case with the economic and monetary union, with this step, regarding the management of the Schengen area, we did not go all the way in terms of political solutions.
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Controversial disputes are a part of democratic culture.
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I can say that we are very clear in our mind about the responsibility of the national soldiers for the break with civilisation that was the Shoah. We are firmly convinced that this is something that will have to be handed over to generations to come... so we don't see any reason to change our view of history.
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We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoah.
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I think the political class in Berlin doesn't need to be supervised and monitored by intelligence services in order to find out what they're thinking. Just go to lunch with them, go to dinner with them, or read the papers.
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