Spying Among Friends Is Never Acceptable.

For My Part, In Everything I Do, I Aim To Strengthen Democracy In Germany And Beyond. The United States Is Also A Strong Democracy. As We Are Seeing In Poland, For Example, And Also In Hungary, It Is Important That We Have Counterweights In Democratic Systems, And I Believe They Are Still Strong In America.

The G7 And Former G8 Group Has Always Viewed Itself As A Community Of Values, The Annexation Of Crimea, Which Is A Blatant Violation Of The Principles Of International Law, And The Events In Eastern Ukraine Are Serious Violations Of These Common Values.

What Do You Do When Other Countries' Intelligence Agencies Give You Information And You Aren't Entirely Certain About Its Source? Simply Ignore It? That's Impossible. We Have A Duty To Guarantee The Safety Of Our Citizens.

At The Beginning Of The 60's Our Country Called The Foreign Workers To Come To Germany And Now They Live In Our Country. We Kidded Ourselves A While, We Said: 'they Won't Stay, Sometime They Will Be Gone.' But This Isn't Reality.

Everyone Wants A More Simple Tax System. But If This Means That Certain Tax Breaks Have To Be Cut, People Are No Longer So Enthusiastic.