Angela Merkel was born in East Germany.

possible for GDR citizens to escape from East Germany. I do not think that anyone could then predict that today we would be witnessing a reunification of Germany, bringing together the whole German people in one state, and I think it is our duty to welcome these 16 million plus people into European cooperation.

If East Germany wanted to, Mr President, it had only to hold the elections for Europe when it held the elections for Germany!

And that means that we must be quick to seize the opportunities for the creation of a new Europe offered by the great changes taking place in Germany.

Mr President, at this time, only a few weeks before final German reunification, it is vital to us that the entire process should be seen in a European perspective.

Its political dimension is to give the peoples of the east of Germany, and not of East Germany, a way of being informed of our work and of informing us of their concerns.

I would remind you of the headlines made in recent months by ozone, which is poisonous for man, animals and plants.

How much does eletricity cost in the east of Germany?

This album was a huge success in France and Germany.

At the same time it obviously cannot be stopped overnight.

But we must also make sure that our choices are consistent, clear and firm because speed does not justify precipitation.

In relative terms, North Korea's economy is currently worse than that of East Germany in 1990.

Should we be improving standards in the existing Community or should we not concentrate on improving the situation in East Germany?

MUNICH This month marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel.

The strict application of this article means that the representatives of East Germany have the status of observers.

To state the obvious, this contrast between Germany and its neighborhood is very awkward.

In East Germany we heard the demonstrators say 'Wir sind das Volk' (we are the people).

But I will also add that it is crucial for the European Parliament to get a guarantee that the interim transitional powers, which have been assigned to the Commission, will not prevent the European Parliament from exerting a real influence subsequently during the discussion of the detailed directives.

The question arises whether rapporteur Ford was serious or whether he wanted to parody himself.

The Commission pays no attention at all to the budget problems already arising from the lack of a frontier control between the GDR and the Federal Republic and all the implications of this for the latter's agricultural expenditure.

Previously he had won the Heinrich Mann Prize (1953), and the National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class (1959).

Germany, on the other hand, is not widely considered progressive in this realm.

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That is not a decision taken by the Commission but a decision taken by the Volkskammer, the legitime representation of the people of the GDR, and that is why I do not think we should criticize this speed.

The Commission's legislative package, which forms the subject of the Donnelly report, testifies to the extent to which Parliament has

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And Germany is once again at the center of the process of disintegration.

The German embassy in Cairo declined to comment on the report.

He had visited Germany and the United Kingdom before the appearance of his book.

In this connection however we should point our that we feel the report itself has serious inadequacies and is vague in its premisses.

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I have tried to express my convictions and to point out that it is not useful to combine different problems, at the risk of confusing and complicating their solutions.

The Galle report, as presented, is a good report, especially with the amendments from the chairmen of the groups, but again, I do not think we can have the advantages of both the treaty and the non treaty solution.

We also refused to reserve a 12 mile zone for small time fishermen who are very numerous in East Germany.

The lowering of the ceiling in Category 3 by ECU 50 million as a result of the revision will be achieved mainly by restricting the support measures outside the ftamewotk programmes, which will thus be

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Germany, by contrast, is a mainstay of the democratic world.

Germany also had to overcome the moral catastrophe of Nazism.

The first is the imperviousness of the commercial frontier between he former Federal Republic of Germany and the eastern Länder.

But moving Germany s gold is hardly helpful in this regard.

, First ECB Central Banking Conference , June 2000 , Frankfurt .