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Europe must be a player and not ask maybe to get a seat at a side table, ... No, we must sit at the main table.”
We have not left Ukraine alone, that should not and must not happen in the future,
said Scholz, whose three years in office have largely been defined by Russia’s invasion With me, Germany will have a strong voice in the European Union again.”
Uncertainty about the future has increased and the answer to this must be to ensure that our country is still as far ahead in 10, 20, 30 years as we are today,
Scholz urged at the campaign event We will only gain respect in this European Union again if we finally overcome our country’s economic weakness.”
However, he said ... Which he We have a lot of friends who grew up in Germany whose parents did not
One woman, 35-year-old Natalie, told the BBC You can insult me all you want, ... but you are insulting millions of voters.
I don't want to suggest Merz plans (a coalition with the AfD), but I have to say my personal confidence that he won't do it after the election if that's his only way of becoming Chancellor - that's gone,
said Ulf Buermeyer, host of the popular and influential podcast State of the Nation I want to do politics so that a party like the AfD is no longer needed in Germany,
he told a congress of his conservatives in January, blaming the Social Democrat Scholz and his Green partners for creating the conditions that nurtured the AfD If elected as Chancellor, sparks might fly between Merz and Trump as Merz has been extremely critical of Trump’s fascination with tariffs."
He told the Daily Express If we spend weeks, possibly months, possibly with party conferences and even member surveys then the period in which this country is without a majority capable of governing will be too long for me,
he said in a Politico interview this week Regardless of the parliamentary makeup, social fragmentation is likely to persist,
I am running again for the office of chancellor and of course I want to win,
The most important bet on the future is that we marshal our strength to get this economy growing again,
These tasks must also be financed through greater leeway in our debt rules — otherwise the country will not hold together and cannot grow,
For companies and households, we’ll rather have to ease the tax burden,
I hope that it (the U.S.) remains a democracy and does not slide into an authoritarian populist system,
Merz said at a campaign event in Darmstadt But it may be that America will enter a longer period of instability and that this populism, this autocratic behaviour of the heads of state, will continue for a longer period of time,
he said, calling for Germany and Europe to step up to become able to defend themselves Will the Americans still be there? Eight weeks ago I would not have dared to ask this question, but today we have to give an answer to it,
Some people will go to the election, into the polling booth and only then decide who and which party to vote for. And I believe that in the end, many will vote for the SPD and give me a new mandate to lead,