Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel
Angela Dorothea Merkelis a German stateswoman and former research scientist. Merkel has been the Chancellor of Germany since 2005, and the leader of the Christian Democratic Unionsince 2000...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth17 July 1954
CityHamburg, Germany
CountryGermany
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I foresee that Germany should in 10 years' time be able to say it is back among the top three countries in Europe.
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I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.
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It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
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At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
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History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago. [...] The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.
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The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
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The question is: Would there be a market in Germany for certain types of employment if one were to allow the employed person to earn less than is necessary to maintain his standard of living?
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We cannot allow employers in Germany to pay hourly wages of 50 cents and shift the remainder of the burden to the taxpayer. After all, we want to create jobs, not open a self-service shop for resourceful employers.
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I want us to be able to preserve our level of prosperity. We must constantly remind ourselves that Germany has been eating into its capital. It is only through successful management that we can once again secure our foundation of prosperity and social security.
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We have very stable mechanisms of conflict resolution in terms of labor relations, we have a very good transportation infrastructure, we provide our children with an excellent education and the gap between rich and poor in Germany is relatively narrow. On the other hand, we have trouble accepting change.
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This is not about ritual, it about a deep conviction that a strong relationship between Germany and France is both necessary and beneficial to Europe,
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We will shape it -- and I have told the Turkish foreign minister this -- in a way that is mutually beneficial to our countries and the European Union,
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said Schnabel, the former US ambassador. ''She's exactly what the country needs. She's dynamic, she's pro-business, and she's not afraid of free markets. Her election would not just shake up Germany, it would shake up Europe.
We have to make this work, for our own sake, as well as for the country,