Real Life Is Happening Outside And Not

I Hope Gunter Grass Will Continue Helping The Spd In Campaigns And That He Will Otherwise Remain With Us As A Provocative Literary Figure, As Well.

It Is Clear That Germany Needs A Foreign Policy In Which We Jointly Define European Interests. Thus Far, We Have Often Defined European Values, But We Have Been Much Too Weak In Defining Mutual Interests. To Preempt Any Possible Misunderstandings: We Cannot Give Short Shrift To Our Values Of Freedom, Democracy And Human Rights.

I'm Hearing Different Things, But There Is Concern That Stable Germany Is No Longer Quite So Stable.

Taming The Financial Markets And Winning Back Democratic Control Over Them Is The Central Condition For Creating A New Social Balance In Germany And Europe.

In The Past, Germany Could Rely On The French, The British And, Especially, The Americans, To Assert Our Interests In The World. We Have Always Criticized The U.s. For Being The Global Police, And It Was Often Appropriate To Do So. But We Are Now Seeing What Happens When The U.s. Pulls Back. If The U.s. Leaves The Room, Other Powers Immediately Walk In. In Syria, It's Russia And Iran. In Trade Policy, It's China. These Examples Show That, Ultimately, We Are No Longer Achieving Either - Neither The Dissemination Of Our European Values Nor The Advancement Of Our Interests.