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
To those who say the results of this election are already definite, I say: Look at the number of undecided,
Today we have agreed on these principles. Much is left to do, ... There are differences of opinion on whether to stop the bombings.
We are ready day and night, 24 hours, seven days a week, when there is a need, we will be there and the door will be open and everything will be tried,
We shouldn't act in way that, at the end, terrorist groups will be strengthened and not weakened, because they want to drive us into a war of the civilizations, ... We should react in a wise way based on a multilateral approach and based on the coalition in the war against terror.
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.
Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.
Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age
Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.
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.
We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.
You must see the persons who are in charge-persons you can punish or vote for.