Gerhard Schroeder
Gerhard Schroeder
Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder; born 7 April 1944) is a German politician, and served as Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. As a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, he led a coalition government of the SPD and the Greens. Before becoming a full-time politician, he was a lawyer, and before becoming Chancellor he served as Prime Minister of Lower Saxony. Following the 2005 federal election, which his party lost, after three weeks of negotiations he stood...
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We always said that the regime of Saddam Hussein does not correspondent to democracy and human rights... but you cannot solve such problems with military means.
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What we have agreed naturally concerns developments in our countries, but also Europe's development, ... The two cannot be separated.
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One cannot make the Serbian people suffer for their president, ... One cannot leave them without power in winter or without heat.
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I made clear I cannot accept the precondition that we must cease military activities first and then start negotiating. I'm sure the NATO partners see it the same way,
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I am proud of the people in our country. I am proud of our democratic culture which has shown that it cannot be shaken by media power and media manipulation,
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Without a new mandate my political program cannot be carried forward,
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I can understand when many individuals, in view of the horror of the images that one cannot look at daily, tend toward denial,
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I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,
control financial markets
I think a lot of that (proposal) because we must control financial markets better,
exchange friendly open opinions
It has been a very open and friendly exchange of opinions.
polls
It is not they who will decide, but we when we go to the polls on Sunday,
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It is an internal Russian problem to be solved between the Chechen people and the Russian federation.
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I see a military option a high-grade danger, ... Therefore I can certainly rule out that a German government under my leadership would take part in one.
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Otherwise nothing will happen (with a grand coalition),