ANGELA MERKEL Prime Minister, Director, Excellencies, Above all, survivors, Ladies and gentlemen, To stand here today and address you as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany is far from easy. I am filled with a deep shame at the barbaric crimes committed here by Germans, crimes that defy all comprehension. One ought actually to…

ANGELA MERKEL Nuncio, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to be able to offer all of you a warm welcome to Schloss Meseberg. When we met here last year, I talked about the fact that we are living through turbulent times. Little has changed in this respect to this day – we need only to think of the many…

ANGELA MERKEL Presidents, Esteemed colleagues, Esteemed colleagues from the parliaments, Mr Ischinger, Ladies and gentlemen, And, of course, allow me also to welcome the Minister-President of the Free State of Bavaria. I believe that Munich is an excellent city to host this conference. Bavaria’s strength is on display in a very special way here. We have other…

ANGELA MERKEL Julia, Ministers, Commissioners, State Secretaries, On behalf of the entire Federal Government, I would like to welcome you to this special event here at the International Green Week in Berlin. The fact that so many of you have come here shows the willingness to work together and to tap into the agricultural sector’s innovation potential.…

ANGELA MERKEL President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, Members of Parliament, Commissioners, Ladies and gentlemen, Nearly 50 years ago, Walter Hallstein, the former German Commission President, referred to European integration as an “endeavour of unparalleled boldness”. The year was 1969, ten years before the first direct European elections took…

ANGELA MERKEL Federal Minister Giffey, Minister-President, Former Women’s and Family Ministers, Parliamentary State Secretaries, State Secretaries, Mayors, Ladies and gentlemen, When Marie Juchacz, about whom we have already heard today, became the first woman to give a speech in the National Assembly in February 1919, she began by saying “Gentlemen and ladies”. Merely addressing the…

ANGELA MERKEL Prime Minister, my friend Erna Solberg, Director-General Tedros, My friend Bill Gates, Professor Ganten, Fellow members of the Bundestag, My colleague Gerd Müller, Ladies and gentlemen, Health – who doesn’t wish for it? There is hardly any other issue that people are more concerned about, precisely because it affects each and every one…

ANGELA MERKEL Mr Chairman, Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr President – Emmanuel Macron, Ministers, guests, Excellencies, I would like to welcome all of you to Bonn and thus to the Federal Republic of Germany. We are very proud that the seat of the UNFCCC Secretariat is here in Bonn. We are meeting here…