But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.