Budget Consolidation And Economic Growth

Globalization - And I Think We Share This Conviction - Is That Globalization Needs To Be Shaped Politically, It Needs To Be Given A Human Face, But We Cannot Allow To Fall Back Into Plagued Globalization Times.

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.

Ordinary People Regard A Man Of A Certain Force And Flexibility Of Character As They Do A Lion; They Look At Him With A Sort Of Wonder, Perhaps They Admire Him; But They Will On No Account House With Him.

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.

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.