ANGELA MERKEL Ladies and gentlemen, Dear Mr Ischinger, Dear David Cameron, Among all guests, I would like to particularly welcome to Munich the host of yesterday’s lunch, Herman Van Rompuy. The lunch lasted six hours, and it did end up being quite successful. I am pleased to be here again at the Munich Security Conference…

ANGELA MERKEL Mr President, Deans, members and friends of Tel Aviv University, Honoured guests, Students, I am delighted to be back in Tel Aviv and here at the renowned Tel Aviv University on this special occasion. I would like to thank you most sincerely for your kind words and cordial welcome. The fact that I…

ANGELA MERKEL Professor Schwab, Ladies and gentlemen, I’m delighted to be back in Davos following my last visit two years ago. The motto of this year’s event is «Shared Norms for the New Reality”. I believe one key feature of this new reality is that we’ve learned that we are globally interconnected, that we are…

ANGELA MERKEL Ladies and gentlemen, On 9 November 1989, Günter Schabowski, a member of the politburo of the SED Central Committee, briefed journalists at a press conference on the outcome of a Central Committee meeting. After he’d finished, a journalist from the Italian news agency Ansa asked a question about the new travel law. Schabowski…

ANGELA MERKEL Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Distinguished Members of Congress, I would like to thank you for the great honor and privilege to address you today, shortly before the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I am the second German Chancellor on whom this honor has been bestowed. The first was…

ANGELA MERKEL Mr President, Madam Speaker, Prime Minister, Madam President of the Supreme Court, Honourable Members of the Knesset, Ladies and gentlemen, Madam Speaker, anni modda lachem she-nittan li le-dabber ellechem kaan be-bait mechubad se. Se kawwod gadol awurri. [Thank you for allowing me to speak to you here in the Knesset. I am very…

ANGELA MERKEL Mr Holbrooke, Mr Pearlstine, Former Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker, Ms von Maltzahn, Gary Smith, Colleagues from the German Bundestag, Ladies and gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me to be a guest of the American Academy, particularly today when we are remembering George Marshall – a gentleman of whom one can…

ANGELA MERKEL Your Magnificence, President Menachem Magidor, Excellencies, Representatives of the university, Guests from Germany, Ms Knobloch, whom I welcome by name on behalf of you all, Ladies and gentlemen, First I would like to thank you for your very kind words of welcome. I am, of course, delighted to be your guest here today.…

ANGELA MERKEL Mr President, Hans-Gert Pottering, predecessors of the President, colleagues at the European Parliament, Commission President! Mr President, you are one of the parliamentarians who witnessed the first hours of the European Parliament. You have just said that your experience goes back to 1979. I think we could say that you have experienced and…