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What Could Become A Danger To World Peace Is Iran's Nuclear Program And The Country's Open Threat To Annihilate Israel.

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.

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 A Risk We Will Run Out Of Time. We Have Been Blessed With A Pro-european French President, But We Are Also Approaching The Next Elections For The European Parliament In 2019, And It Will Be Important For Pro-european Parties Present A Credible Answer To The Anti-europeans On The Left And The Right.

It Is Clear That Germany Needs A Foreign Policy In Which We Jointly Define European Interests. Thus Far, We Have Often Defined European Values, But We Have Been Much Too Weak In Defining Mutual Interests. To Preempt Any Possible Misunderstandings: We Cannot Give Short Shrift To Our Values Of Freedom, Democracy And Human Rights.

I Hope Gunter Grass Will Continue Helping The Spd In Campaigns And That He Will Otherwise Remain With Us As A Provocative Literary Figure, As Well.