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Nobody likes to hear this but it is the truth. We are not living through the final phase of this crisis.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We know a pandemic does not take account of the holidays.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We are seeing some small effect (from the measures) but we are far from where we need to be, we know a pandemic does not take account of the holidays.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When I see today how almost everyone has completely changed their behaviour, how the vast majority of you really do avoid any unnecessary contact, precisely because it can also contain a risk of infection, then I would simply like to say: thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
These are initial discussions and there have been no decisions by the finance ministers, i will talk to (Finance Minister) Olaf Scholz so that Germany continues to take part (in the discussions). But there are no results regarding this.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In such extraordinary situations, the military would then legally be in charge, under the leadership of the police.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have already accomplished a great deal in the last 11 months, therefore we will also manage the new challenge now in front of us, the one described by the term ‘Islamist terror.’.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The decision (of Britons to leave the EU) has been taken .. and the next step is -- and Britain will do this only when they have a new prime minister -- to invoke Article 50, i expect that to happen. I deal with reality and I firmly expect that application will be made.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is, however, a highly political agreement, which will be widely discussed.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Sure enough this means that a country like Germany, which today spends around 1.2 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on defense, and the United States, which spends 3.4 percent of GDP for defense will have to converge.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I recommend anyone who is fearful to take the opportunity to personally get to know someone who has fled to us. These are people who have experienced and suffered a lot and have their worries and hopes just as much as we do.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I have ... again demanded that we have zones where the ceasefire is particularly enforced and where a significant level of security can be guaranteed.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
That's why I think this is absolutely right.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
People are suddenly there and need protection.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There are situations in life - and this was the case last autumn - when you can't hold a long debate on principles, people are suddenly there and need protection.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We shouldn't lose sight of the things that drive us in private like helpfulness and charity but we also need to respect German and European laws.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Our efforts are not done yet, i understand that Turkey also expects Europe to deliver.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Germany is ready to do what it can ... to stabilise Iraq in view of the big security challenges and economic challenges.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have a free society... but there are people who want us harmed, we will persevere.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Everything must be done to investigate those responsible as quickly and completely as possible and punish them, regardless of where they are from.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
On the one hand, we want to reach an agreement with which the British government can successfully campaign, in the forthcoming referendum, to remain in the European Union, on the other hand, we don't want to, and we won't, call into question the core principles of European integration. These include in particular the principle of free movement and the principle of non-discrimination between European citizens.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When the French President asks me to think hard about what more we can do, then it is a responsibility for us to think hard about it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This attack on freedom is not only aimed against Paris. It's aimed against us all, we know that our free life is stronger than terror.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We don't see any reason to change our view of history, particularly on this issue, we abide by our responsibility, in Germany, for the Holocaust.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If (economic grounds) is the only reason for being here, then we will have to say more strongly to these people: you must go home.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I believe that the reputation of the German economy, the confidence in the German economy is not so shaken that we do not continue to count as a good business location.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have a weekend behind us that was moving, at times breathtaking.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We cannot just say 'Because we have a difficult task now, the balanced budget or the issue of debt are no longer important'.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We won't raise taxes. And we still have the goal of posting a balanced budget without taking on new debt.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If Europe has solidarity and we have also shown solidarity towards others, then we need to show solidarity now.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The situation is extremely unsatisfying, we need a common European asylum policy.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The alternative to this agreement would not be a 'time-out' from the euro ... but, rather, predictable chaos, we would be grossly negligent, and acting irresponsibly, if we didn't at least attempt this way.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The principle ... of responsibility and solidarity that has guided us since the beginning of the European debt crisis marks the entire result from Monday.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I know that many have doubts and concerns about whether this road will be successful, about whether Greece will have the strength to take it in the long term, and no one can brush aside these concerns, but I am firmly convinced of one thing: we would be grossly negligent, even irresponsible, if we did not at least try this road.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The Greeks have not fulfilled their obligations.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The range of threats spans cyber-spying and sabotage to cyber war.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Whoever sees data as a threat, whoever thinks about every piece of data in terms of what bad can be done with it, will not be able to take advantage of the opportunity of digitization.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Many jobs will disappear because they can be replaced by machines, but I'm convinced that many more jobs will be created through the value of data.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is a decision made by a company. There was no surprise effect for me, i don't want to comment further. I want Deutsche Bank to be successful and it must make its own decisions like all other companies in Germany.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Spying among friends is not at all acceptable.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
These camps keep our memories alive, despite all the adversity out there, there are unfortunately incidents again and again such as the theft of the Dachau gate last year that are disturbing.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
These former concentration camps have come into public focus in recent weeks with the passing of the 70th anniversaries of the liberation of one camp after another, there were unfathomable horrors everywhere.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There were unfathomable horrors everywhere, they all admonish us to never forget. No, we will never forget. We'll not forget for the sake of the victims, for our own sake, and for the sake of future generations.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There's no drawing a line under the history, we can see that in the Greece debate and in other European countries. We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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