If Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world's population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then it's obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life.

The real problem is that the financial base for our social security system is shrinking because the number of normal jobs is falling. In other words, we have to address the challenge of how to make employment, in the classic sense, attractive once again.

Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.

From a German point of view, German-American and European-American relations are a pillar of our foreign policy.

What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's impossible. We have a duty to guarantee the safety of our citizens.

This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed.

Only our own strength, a strong conservative party, can prevent Red-Red-Green from taking power at the federal level in 2017.