Gerhard Schroeder
Gerhard Schroeder
Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder; born 7 April 1944) is a German politician, and served as Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. As a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, he led a coalition government of the SPD and the Greens. Before becoming a full-time politician, he was a lawyer, and before becoming Chancellor he served as Prime Minister of Lower Saxony. Following the 2005 federal election, which his party lost, after three weeks of negotiations he stood...
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There is no reason whatsoever for a party like the SPD to relinquish any of its claims as long as it's not clear if the two parties want to negotiate with each other,
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How can such a party lead the nation?
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You don't seriously believe that as things stand my party would respond to an offer from Frau Merkel in which she says she wants to be chancellor,
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This is not about my prerogatives and absolutely not about me as a person, ... It is about my party's prerogative for political leadership and only the party leaders can decide on that. I will accept any decision. I do not want to stand in the way of a development that allows the continuation of the (economic) reforms I initiated and the formation of a stable government in Germany.
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Do you really think my party would take up an offer for talks from Frau Merkel?
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Do you honestly believe that my party will enter talks with Mrs. Merkel if she says that she wants to become chancellor?
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This shows that we are well-advised to work with Russia as a partner to combating worldwide threats.
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We always said that the regime of Saddam Hussein does not correspondent to democracy and human rights... but you cannot solve such problems with military means.
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Without the democratization of Yugoslavia, there will be no Western support for reconstruction,
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This will be a co-operation built on a common foundation. It will be fair, ... We have hard times in front of us and we're going to make it together.
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This will be a cooperation built on a common foundation. It will be fair,
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This requires a government that makes this its priority and I am very sure that such a government will emerge in the form of a grand coalition.
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We assume that would lead to there being sufficient energy reserves in the market and, second, we would wish the pressure on the prices of oil products to be lessened,
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To all those who try to fight this in the Anglo-Saxon media I say look at the others - they are far better off than you are,