Germany

Chancellor of Germany

20 Aug 2021 3 2

Angela Merkel

Inserted 2 years ago

“We must realize that when it comes to the NATO mission to Afghanistan, it was not possible to have an independent role for Germany or the European forces. We always said that we are basically dependent on the decisions of the US government.”

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Chancellor of Germany

16 Aug 2021 4 2

Annalena Baerbock

Inserted 2 years ago

“We have to uphold standards when there is dumping in other world regions. This could for instance take the form of a surcharge on companies that have been subsidised on the Chinese market or that are not subject to environmental standards.”

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Germany's Green Party's chancellor candidate

15 Aug 2021 3 2

Wang Yiwei

Inserted 2 years ago

“Unlike the UK, which came to the South China Sea to boost its strategic role of 'Global Britain' after Brexit, Germany is acting more on behalf of Europe to seek a long-term maritime order and maintain a certain contact with China, but not confrontationally.”

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Director of the institute of international affairs at the Renmin University of China in Beijing

02 Aug 2021 4 6

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Inserted 2 years ago

“We want existing law to be respected, sea routes to be freely navigable, open societies to be protected and trade to follow fair rules.”

German Defence Minister

02 Aug 2021 1 4

Angela Merkel

Inserted 2 years ago

“I am equipped with sufficient sense for science to see that objective circumstances demand that we can't continue at the current pace but have to up the tempo.”

Chancellor of Germany

22 Jul 2021 0 3

Ivo Visković

Inserted 2 years ago

“If the CDU / CSU remains in power, the situation will remain more or less the same. However, I am intrigued by the potential coming of the Greens to power, because their views are much more critical and demanding. If they lead foreign policy, there may be milder changes, but not essential ones.”

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Serbian diplomat and former Ambassador to Germany

19 Jul 2021 3 2

Angela Merkel

Inserted 2 years ago

“It is terrifying. The German language can barely describe the devastation that's taken place.”

Chancellor of Germany

18 Jul 2021 0 1

Carlo Buontempo

Inserted 2 years ago

“With climate change we do expect all hydro-meteorological extremes to become more extreme. What we have seen in Germany is broadly consistent with this trend.”

Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

16 Jul 2021 1 5

Angela Merkel

Inserted 2 years ago

“It's not like the world no longer has any problems because of the election of Joe Biden as US president. But we can work on solutions to those problems with new momentum. And I think it's very good that we have become more concrete at this G7.”

Chancellor of Germany

13 Jun 2021 2 2

Heiko Maas

Inserted 2 years ago

“We only have one word for what the German colonial occupation between 1904 and 1908 perpetrated in Namibia was: genocide.”

Germany Foreign Minister

27 May 2021 2 2

Michael Roth

Inserted 3 years ago

“Germany supports EU Presidency's objective to hold first accession conferences with both Albania and North Macedonia in June. Both countries have delivered on required reforms – now EU has to deliver, too. Further delay undermines EU credibility, stability in the region.”

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Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office

07 May 2021 4 6

Heiko Maas

Inserted 3 years ago

“I know that visa liberalization is important to citizens. Germany's position is clear that Kosovo has fulfilled visa liberalization criteria and visas should be waved. The EU should keep its promise given to Kosovo and during Germany's EU Presidency it was a priority and we will remain to engage that visa liberalization to be implemented as soon as possible.”

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Germany Foreign Minister

23 Apr 2021 3 2

Heiko Maas

Inserted 3 years ago

“The time is right for continuing the normalization process -- and to achieve results. It is important not to hold this dialogue just for dialogue's sake, there must be results. Germany stands ready to help in this respect.”

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Germany Foreign Minister

23 Apr 2021 2 4

Angela Merkel

Inserted 3 years ago

“I'm delighted to see that the United States is back, is back to work together with us in climate politics. Because there can be no doubt about the world needing your contribution if we really want to fulfill our ambitious goals.”

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Chancellor of Germany

22 Apr 2021 2 3

Michael Roth

Inserted 3 years ago

“Drawing new frontiers is a dangerous path. Countries on Western Balkans have a future only as multiethnic and multireligious societies. Regional reconciliation and cooperation are the keys for peace, democracy and prosperity.”

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Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office

16 Apr 2021 1 2

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Inserted 3 years ago

“My impression is that the Russian side is trying everything to provoke a reaction. Together with Ukraine, we won't be drawn into this game. [Russia] is just waiting for a move, so to speak, from NATO, to have a pretext to continue its actions.”

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German Defence Minister

14 Apr 2021 3 2

Janosch Dahmen

Inserted 3 years ago

“If we would have had a national strategy against this virus, against pandemic, everybody would probably agree really strict measures at the moment would be the right thing. It's rather ineffective if each of the states takes its own way over the Easter holidays. People also don't understand that they cannot go for a holiday trip within their own territory, but they can fly out to many other countries.”

Germany Green party MP and medical doctor

06 Apr 2021 2 2

Gerald Lehmann

Inserted 3 years ago

“I'm upset. This bureaucracy, there is simply no pragmatism. I compare it to the flood. A dam breaks and we recognise the situation, but we sit down in our offices and write rules about where to get sandbags and how to fill them. That's our problem in Germany: we are no longer able to act. First of all, we need regulations in order to do anything, and that makes life difficult.”

Mayor of Luckau (Germany)

06 Apr 2021 1 3

Orhan Akman

Inserted 3 years ago

“Amazon is making a mint in the coronavirus crisis. For this reason alone, wage evasion must be stopped there. This [a demanding a pay increase of 4.5% for workers in the retail and mail order industry] must also be possible at Amazon this year.”

Trade union Verdi representative

28 Mar 2021 1 3

Jens Spahn

Inserted 3 years ago

“We are in the third wave of the pandemic, the numbers are rising, the percentage of virus mutations is high.”

German Health Minister

20 Mar 2021 3 2

Thomas Mertens

Inserted 3 years ago

“[Even though] we always stated that [our assessment] had nothing to do with the safety of the vaccine [the AstraZeneca vaccine] ... we never criticized the vaccine to be unsafe. We are working quite hard … to try and convince people to accept the vaccine and really to build ... trust in the vaccine among the population.”

Head of STIKO (Germany's Standing Committee on Vaccination)

25 Feb 2021 4 5

Angela Merkel

Inserted 3 years ago

“We have to prepare for a situation where we have to continuously vaccinate for a longer period of time, maybe over years, due to new coronavirus variants, akin to the situation we know from the flu.”

Chancellor of Germany

25 Feb 2021 3 2

Angela Merkel

Inserted 3 years ago

“I stressed in my intervention that the pandemic is not over until all people in the world have been vaccinated.”

Chancellor of Germany

19 Feb 2021 3 3

Angela Merkel

Inserted 3 years ago

“It is now time for positive signals that create trust and increase the chances of a diplomatic solution.”

Chancellor of Germany

17 Feb 2021 2 3

Angela Merkel

Inserted 3 years ago

“We consider these expulsions to be unjustified. We believe it is yet another aspect that can be observed right now of Russia being quite far from the rule of law.”

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Chancellor of Germany

05 Feb 2021 2 3

Armin Laschet

Inserted 3 years ago

“I want to do everything so that we can stick together through this year … and then make sure that the next chancellor in the federal elections will be from the [CDU/CSU] union.”

Newly elected chairman of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU)

16 Jan 2021 2 2

Steffen Seibert

Inserted 3 years ago

“The fundamental right [of freedom of expression] can be interfered with, but along the lines of the law and within the framework defined by the lawmakers. Not according to the decision of the management of social media platforms. The German government is convinced that social network operators bear a very high level of responsibility ... for ensuring that political communication is not poisoned by hatred, by lies, by incitement to violence.”

Spokesman of German Chancellor Angela Merkel

11 Jan 2021 5 1

Jens Spahn

Inserted 3 years ago

“Things are improving step by step, now more than 500,000 people have had the vaccine. If the approvals we expect come through for vaccines developed by AstraZeneca, CureVac or Johnson & Johnson, then in the summer Germany will be able to offer everyone a vaccine. We need patience. We have started the road out of this but a long path lies ahead.”

German Health Minister

09 Jan 2021 6 2

Werner Klink

Inserted 3 years ago

“Even if they told him he would not be allowed to continue, he will have already caused so much damage there’s no way he can take the site back to its original state. Immense, irreversible harm has been done to the nature, potentially to the groundwater, to the forest, the flora, fauna. Musk is a risk-taker, that’s what he does, and he’s banked on the fact they’ll never tell him to demolish his building, particularly when so many jobs are at stake. There’s a considerable danger that the digging will contaminate the groundwater. Just one metre below the surface there is salt water and there are signs it’s rising. If it mixes with the fresh water we’ll have a huge problem on our hands.”

Retired geophysicist, member of the Grünheide’s citizens’ initiative

05 Jan 2021 2 3

Bärbel Kofler

Inserted 3 years ago

“I am shocked by the large number of judgments against lawyers, journalists and opposition activists in China in recent days. Once again, it is evident that vague legal terms are being used to restrict civil liberties.”

Germany’s Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance

28 Dec 2020 3 2

Ugur Sahin

Inserted 3 years ago

“Scientifically it is highly likely that the immune response by this vaccine can also deal with this virus variant. The vaccine contains more than 1,270 amino acids, and only 9 of them are changed (in the mutant virus). That means that 99% of the protein is still the same.”

Chief executive of Germany’s BioNTech

22 Dec 2020 3 2

Angela Merkel

Inserted 3 years ago

“I would have wished for lighter measures. But due to Christmas shopping, the number of social contacts has risen considerably. There is an urgent need to take action.”

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Chancellor of Germany

13 Dec 2020 2 2

Angela Merkel

Inserted 3 years ago

“I want to say this: if we have too much contact over Christmas, and afterwards it turns out that that was the last Christmas with the grandparents, then we will have really messed up and we should not mess up!”

Chancellor of Germany

09 Dec 2020 3 2

Angela Merkel

Inserted 3 years ago

“If there are conditions from the British side which we cannot accept, we are prepared to go down a road which is without an exit agreement.”

Chancellor of Germany

09 Dec 2020 3 2

Heiko Maas

Inserted 3 years ago

“Germany has worked hard to facilitate a dialogue between the European Union and Turkey over the past months. But there have been too many provocations, and tensions between Turkey, Cyprus and Greece have prevented any direct talks. For this reason, we will talk about what consequences we should draw – also with a view to the EU summit this week.”

Germany Foreign Minister

07 Dec 2020 7 2

Angela Merkel

Inserted 3 years ago

“We will try to get a vote in Europe on whether we could close all ski resorts. Unfortunately, considering announcements from Austria, it doesn't look like we can do that so easily, but we will try again.”

Chancellor of Germany

26 Nov 2020 5 2

Peter Altmaier

Inserted 3 years ago

“We’re not out of the woods yet. We cannot afford a yo-yo shutdown with the economy constantly opening and closing. If we don’t want days with 50,000 new infections, as was the case in France a few weeks ago, we must see through this and not constantly speculate about which measures can be relaxed again. All countries that lifted their restrictions too early have so far paid a high price in terms of human lives lost.”

Germany Economy Minister

15 Nov 2020 2 2

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Inserted 3 years ago

“China is an important trading partner for Germany and we have strong economic ties which are in the interest of both sides. At the same time, we do not turn a blind eye on unequal investment conditions, aggressive appropriation of intellectual property, state-subsidised distortion of competition or attempts to exert influence by means of loans and investments.”

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German Defence Minister

02 Nov 2020 1 1

Jens Spahn

Inserted 3 years ago

“Given the very dynamic situation in all of Europe, we need to equally reduce contact in almost all European countries.”