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What We Have At Present Is A System Of Loss Socialism. Whatever Goes Wrong Is Shouldered By The General Public And Anything That Works Is Privatised. Worshippers Of Market Freedom Have Suspended The Most Important Economic Principle: Risk And Liability Go Hand In Hand.

If We Want To Implement Climate Protection Worldwide, Countries Like Germany, Which Are Capable Of Developing New Technologies, Will Have To Hand Over Some Of Their Knowledge. We Can't Expect To Have Our Cake And Eat It Too.

It Isn't Easy For Everyone In Germany To Make Ends Meet Through Well-paid Work In Germany. You Have To Have Sufficient Skills And Work Hard. And I Also Know That We Have Much Too Much Poverty And Inequality Here. Still, Our Parents And Grandparents Built An Incredibly Prosperous And Peaceful Country. One Shouldn't, Of Course, Play Down The Degree To Which This Is Dependent On Our Economic Strength. The Truth Is That Moscow, Beijing And Washington Have One Thing In Common: They Don't Value The European Union At All. They Disregard It.

Economically And Politically, Germany Is Extremely Stable. There Are Countries With Functioning Governments Whose Institutions Don't Work. My Only Concern Is About Europe. There's A Risk We Will Run Out Of Time. We Have Been Blessed With A Pro-european French President, But We Are Also Approaching The Next Elections For The European Parliament In 2019, And It Will Be Important For Pro-european Parties Present A Credible Answer To The Anti-europeans On The Left And The Right.

We, The Social Democrats, Are Convinced That Capitalism Needs To Be Tamed A Second Time. The First Time We Achieved That In Germany For Many Decades With The Social Market Economy. That Is No Longer Enough. Now We Need To Do It In Europe And Even Globally.