We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands, of course in friendship with the United States, in friendship with Great Britain, with other neighbors wherever possible, also with Russia. But we must know that we need to fight for our future ourselves, as Europeans, for our destiny.
Angela MerkelParticularly from a German perspective, from a European perspective, I can only say again, Russia is our neighbor.
Angela MerkelI believe that we will move forward a little tomorrow but I have my doubts that we will achieve a result.
Angela MerkelLook 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.
Angela Merkel