We Need A Greening Of Globalisation.

However, I Have A Low Opinion Of People With Narrow Political Horizons. Someone Who Talks About The Environment And Knows Nothing About Economics Can Make As Many Mistakes As Someone Who Does The Opposite.

We, The Social Democrats, Are Convinced That Capitalism Needs To Be Tamed A Second Time. The First Time We Achieved That In Germany For Many Decades With The Social Market Economy. That Is No Longer Enough. Now We Need To Do It In Europe And Even Globally.

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.

Less And Less Is The Question Being Asked As To Whether Developments Are Taking Place In A Democratic And Free Way. Europe Is In A Phase In Which This Output Is No Longer Sufficiently Visible Or Tangible. Youth Unemployment Is Still Far Too High, We Still Haven't Solved Our Currency Problem And Living Conditions In Europe Are Drifting Apart. That Is One Reason Why Critics Say That Our Europe Is Based On Yesteryear's Model.

I'm Hearing Different Things, But There Is Concern That Stable Germany Is No Longer Quite So Stable.