Particularly from a German perspective, from a European perspective, I can only say again, Russia is our neighbor.

I believe that we will move forward a little tomorrow but I have my doubts that we will achieve a result.

I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

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.

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

There's another point that I wanted to mention here, particularly the engagement and commitment to Africa. For us Europeans, Africa as a neighboring continent is of prime importance. The development of African countries is in our very own vested interest.

We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task.