Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and that it's an export nation.
Angela Merkel is a German stateswoman and retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office and the only former East German. She led the Christian Democratic Union from 2000 to 2018.
Born in Hamburg in West Germany, she moved with her family to East Germany as an infant. She earned a doctorate in quantum chemistry in 1986 and worked as a research scientist until 1989, then entered politics after the Revolutions of 1989. Following German reunification in 1990 she was elected to the Bundestag, and as a protégée of Chancellor Helmut Kohl she became Minister for Women and Youth in 1991.
Born in Hamburg in West Germany, she moved with her family to East Germany as an infant. She earned a doctorate in quantum chemistry in 1986 and worked as a research scientist until 1989, then entered politics after the Revolutions of 1989. Following German reunification in 1990 she was elected to the Bundestag, and as a protégée of Chancellor Helmut Kohl she became Minister for Women and Youth in 1991.
So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.
I think the political class in Berlin doesn't need to be supervised and monitored by intelligence services in order to find out what they're thinking. Just go to lunch with them, go to dinner with them, or read the papers.
Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.
We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that.
For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.
That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great.
The willingness to learn new skills is very high.
Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about a sustainable development.