We Need A Greening Of Globalisation.

The Task For Germany Today Is - Through Its Own Policies And Its Own Structural Reforms, Its Own Investments - To Support The Eu And The Commission... But Every Nation Has To Have The Courage To Broach Such Structural Reforms And Speak Clearly About Them Without Making People Be Afraid.

Being Told About The Effects Of Climate Change Is An Appeal To Our Reason And To Our Desire To Bring About Change. But To See That Africans Are The Hardest Hit By Climate Change, Even Though They Generate Almost No Greenhouse Gas, Is A Glaring Injustice, Which Also Triggers Anger And Outrage Over Those Who Seek To Ignore It.

Madame Merkel Knows Very Well That Her Conservative Christian Democratic Union Or Cdu, And The Csu, The Bavarian Sister Party To The Cdu, With Which It Shares Power Nationally, Must Change Their European Policies. The Fdp's Nationalist-liberal Position On Europe Is Presumably One Of The Reasons The Attempt Failed To Form A Jamaica Coalition Government Which Would Have Seen The Cdu, Fdp And Green Party Govern Together.

Turkey Is Currently Seeking To Make Itself More Independent From Europe And Is Turning To The East. Is That In Our Interest? Does It Help Us Bolster Western Values In Turkey, Or At Least Here At Home? Or Are We Making Ourselves Weaker Overall? At The Same Time, Turkey Is Violating Our European Moral Concepts. It's A Difficult Conflict To Endure, And It Leads To Necessary Disputes And Debates.

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