Joschka Fischer
Joschka Fischer
Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischeris a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. He served as Foreign Minister and as Vice Chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. Fischer has been a leading figure in the West German Greens since the 1970s, and according to opinion polls, he was the most popular politician in Germany for most of the government's duration. Following the September 2005 election, in which the Schröder government was defeated, he left...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 April 1948
CountryGermany
The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line.
We had to move forward after the war and see the realities.
We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.
What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.
An enlarged Union based on Nice is not in the interest of any Member State ... This is not a threat. This is a messenger delivering news.
India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.
The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.
Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.
Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age
Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.
Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.