ANGELA MERKEL Prime Minister, Distinguished colleagues, Barbara Hendricks, Ladies and gentlemen, Allow me to start by saying a few words on what happened last night. I’ve been following the reports from Manchester with great sadness and shock. It’s incomprehensible that someone could take advantage of a cheerful pop concert to kill or seriously injure so…

ANGELA MERKEL Mr President, Fellow members of this House, Ladies and gentlemen! Before I begin, let me also bid a warm welcome to the Tunisian representatives; it is with pleasure that I look back on the opportunity I had, a few weeks ago, to address the Tunisian parliament. We wish Tunisia every success in its…

ANGELA MERKEL Mister President, dear François Hollande, Presidents of the Regional Councils, Minister-Presidents, Your Eminencies, representatives of the Jewish and Muslim communities, Mister President of the European Parliament, Mister President of the European Commission, Ladies and gentlemen, and, last but not least, dear young guests, The French lieutenant Alfred Joubaire was hardly older than you…

ANGELA MERKEL Secretary-General Ban, Emir Al-Sabah,Your Majesty King Abdullah, Prime Minister DavutoÄŸlu, Prime Minister Salam, Erna Solberg, David Cameron, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Allow me also to thank David Cameron and the British Government for their hospitality here in London. Ladies and gentlemen, the film that we saw at the beginning serves as another striking…

ANGELA MERKEL President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, Distinguished colleagues at the European Parliament, Ladies and gentlemen, The last time a French President and a German Chancellor jointly addressed the European Parliament was in November 1989. François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl spoke together here in Strasbourg shortly…

ANGELA MERKEL Mr Ischinger, Heads of State and Government, Representatives, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, The Ukraine crisis, the terrorism of IS in Iraq and Syria, the Ebola epidemic – these three topics alone go to show that the past year brought with it a great deal of suffering and destruction for people at different ends…

ANGELA MERKEL Professor Turner, Professor Mlynek, Professor Eissenhauer, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Thinking over, rethinking, thinking ahead – that’s what you’ve come here to do. The monumental installation by David Chipperfield, to whom I’d like to extend a very warm welcome, is a source of inspiration for this. I welcome all of you to Berlin,…

ANGELA MERKEL Mr President, fellow members of this House, ladies and gentlemen, for hundreds of years, relations among European countries were marked by rivalry, changing alliances and recurring rounds of horrendous bloodshed. We remember this most particularly in 2014, this year of anniversaries. We are remembering the First World War, which broke out 100 years…

ANGELA MERKEL Mr President, my friend Barack Obama, Ladies and gentlemen, I know that many of you have been waiting a long time. The sun doesn’t always shine but let me just put it like this: Barack Obama, we organized the best possible weather for you. Welcome to Berlin! The Brandenburg Gate, this gate that…

ANGELA MERKEL Mr Schwab, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, I’m delighted to be back here again in Davos. The World Economic Forum is, of course, as great a magnet as ever. It offers not only interesting insights and outlooks, but also interesting panoramas – of mountains, obviously, but also as regards current economic developments. We find…