If we want to make Europe stronger, then each country first has to ensure that it becomes stronger itself. This applies to Italy and France, and it applies to Germany as well. Subsequently, we in Europe need to discuss how we can improve the community. That is the correct order.

It has been clear for some time now that we have to do more for domestic and external security. I am prepared for that.

Those who constantly qualify everything and have no opinions of their own are ultimately just as incapable of tolerance.

If you live beyond your means and have to restructure as a result, you pay a price.

It's understandable that Europe's Muslims are in a difficult situation, which is partly their own doing and partly not.

It is clear to us that we will have to become more involved in our neighboring regions so that the migration pressures aren't so high there. Of course the budget negotiations will be difficult, as they always are.

The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.