By preventing new conflicts, we avert the causes of radicalization and the risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, including in Germany.

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

I can't think of many other laws we might need. For now, though, we'll be talking to German Muslims over issues of coexistence.

Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.

In China, it was always said that a double-digit rate of growth would be dangerous. Now, the country has a growth rate of 6.9 percent and suddenly that is supposed to be a catastrophe for the global economy.

You can lead a happy life if you recognize that it's limited and completely unpredictable from one moment to the next.

Europe has grown through crises. Each crisis also presents opportunities, and Europe has emerged stronger from each one. That is the way history unfolds. Europe is sometimes slow, and it reacts sluggishly, but it is capable of finding solutions.