Country Quote by Sigmar Gabriel

The future will belong to the Germans... ...when we build the House of Europe. In the next two years, we will make the process…

— Helmut Kohl

Germany will continue to play a central - perhaps even a more important - role in the European Union. I think that we will…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and…

— Marek Belka

Germany is dictating its policy in Europe

— Christopher A. Pissarides

I think there are going to be more countries joining the euro.

— Jose Angel Gurria

European security may now depend on Germany, France, Britain and one or two others, and it's better to start planning now for the possibility…

— Anne Applebaum

Economically and politically, Germany is extremely stable. There are countries with functioning governments whose institutions don't work. My only concern is about Europe. There's…

— Sigmar Gabriel

It is now up to us to see that we embark on the next stage leading to political unity, which I think is the…

— Jacques Santer

foreign policy is about trying to project the European model, its values, its principles, to the outside world. But at the moment, the European…

— Pierre Vimont

With every wish to take Europe forward with a German-French nucleus, the proposals must always fit with German interests.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

If European monetary policy is run according to German interests, huge structural imbalances will accumulate. The Germans will then either have to pay to…

— John Lanchester

I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that…

— Romano Prodi