Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

Germany is very free-trade oriented.

They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand.

A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.