Joschka Fischer
Joschka Fischer
Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischeris a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. He served as Foreign Minister and as Vice Chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. Fischer has been a leading figure in the West German Greens since the 1970s, and according to opinion polls, he was the most popular politician in Germany for most of the government's duration. Following the September 2005 election, in which the Schröder government was defeated, he left...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 April 1948
CountryGermany
We need a lot of civilian monitors but they must be protected,
There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.
The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.
India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.
An enlarged Union based on Nice is not in the interest of any Member State ... This is not a threat. This is a messenger delivering news.
You must see the persons who are in charge-persons you can punish or vote for.
Solutions must be based on compromises.
There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.
We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi.
We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.
The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.
There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.
We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!
When I heard that yesterday, I was very diplomatic and didn't pull a face. But in my head you could imagine what I was seeing: I saw people sitting around in dreadlocks with joints in their hands, and reggae music playing in the background.