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,… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share
Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region. — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share
Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
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… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share
The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support the EU… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
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… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share
I hope that a German foreign policy in 2028 will be part of a European foreign policy, because even the strong country of Germany… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
The truth is that we have long had a multi-track Europe with very different objectives. The traditional differences between the north and the south in fiscal and economic policy are far less problematic than those that exist between Eastern and Western Europe. In the south and east, China is steadily gaining more influence, such that a few EU member states… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share
If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
I'm hearing different things, but there is concern that stable Germany is no longer quite so stable. — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise. — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share
Political scientist Herfried Münkler is right: If you only take normative positions, if your focus is solely on values, you won't find success in… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
