The Chancellor shall exercise self-criticism, appeals to the sense of community in their own country, and conjures up the idea of a strong Europe. Their response to international crises: more German responsibility.
With its traditional new year’s address, since 2005, acting head of government turns to the people in their own country. “Dear fellow citizens” is the greeting formula. And yet, your words should be heard also beyond the German border. If Angela Merkel stated that from their point of view “very, very difficult political year,” then they do this from two perspectives: the national and the international.
The Chancellor begins with the internal view, the long and difficult formation of a government after the Federal election in 2017. Six months which lasted “, and as we had them, because there was a fight and a lot of preoccupation with ourselves.” Examples of the Christian Democrat, not a, but two in particular have remained in my memory: the constant clashes with the interior Minister, Horst Seehofer of the Bavarian sister party CSU and the social Democrats. In terms of content, it was mostly the supposedly correct course in the migration policy.
Fate Issues: Climate Change, Migration, Terrorism
The tense climate within the coalition wants to know Merkel, but not as a reason for its announced withdrawal from the policy after the end of the term to be understood. You have “regardless of how unsatisfactory the past year has been” done. Their now 13-year term of office to be “a good reason”. To build on “what is left of our predecessor to us” and create in the present for those who should come after. “Democracy lives from the exchange.”
Angela Merkel’s party in Hamburg, withdrew his candidacy at the beginning of December at the CDU where they are for the presidency
Merkel is convinced that the challenges of the time, only masters, “if we stick together and with others across borders to work together.” She thinks a few days after the climate summit in the Polish city of Katowice to the “fate of the question of climate change”, but also to control and regulation of Migration as well as the fight against international terrorism. “In our own interest we want to solve all these questions.”
Germany’s role in the UN security Council
In their will to adopt a wide variety of challenges, mix, however, is in doubt. Certainly the international cooperation units also came under pressure, says Merkel. Again, she cites no examples. But that, among other things, nationalist policies on both sides of the Atlantic, meant is, is likely to be out of the question. Their conclusion: “In such a Situation, we must stand up for our Beliefs, to argue, to fight.”
In the hall of the UN security Council in New York in 2019 and 2020 is reserved a seat for Germany
Recalling now the beginning of the end and a duration of two years membership of Germany in the security Council of the United Nations (UN), announces Merkel, “for global solutions”. “We are increasing our funding for humanitarian aid and development assistance, but also our defense spending.” You will work to make the European Union (EU), “robust decision-enabled”. And with the UK they want to preserve, in spite of the exit from the EU more of a “close partnership”.
Merkel promotes “openness, tolerance and respect,”
To your countrymen, the Chancellor is the appeal, in the European elections in may to ensure that the EU will remain a “project of peace, prosperity and security”. At the end of her new year’s address 2019 Merkel restored the focus inside. With their work for the “equivalent living conditions” was to be reached, the Federal government, “the fact that each and each has good access to education, housing and health care”.
It rings the “best solutions” in the matter. “More and more frequently, but also to the style of our togetherness, of our values: openness, tolerance, and respect.” Merkel worries about the 2018 rough made social climate. She is also confident: “where we believe in our values and our ideas with vigor to implement, since a New and Good can arise.”