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Angela Merkel: Germany to take on greater global responsibility
bbc.com ^ | December 31, 2018 | BBC

Posted on 12/31/2018 12:34:22 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

In 2019 Germany will assume greater international responsibility and must stand up for its convictions, Angela Merkel has vowed in an annual address.

The chancellor said old certainties about international cooperation had "come under pressure", alluding to strained US-German relations. This year, President Donald Trump and the chancellor have clashed on German domestic and foreign policy issues.

Mrs Merkel's New Year's speech will be broadcast in full later on Monday.

Over the past year, Chancellor Merkel has been a leading defender of multilateralism, in contrast to Mr Trump's America First foreign policy. "In our own interest, we must take on more responsibility," the German leader said, warning that global problems like climate change, migration and terrorism cannot be solved alone.

By taking up a temporary seat on the UN Security Council in 2019 and 2020, Germany would push for "global solutions", Ms Merkel said.

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To: datura

Well to Merkel ............”A reasonable NATO policy means crisis prevention, stabilization of weak states, economic development and the fight against hunger, climate change and water scarcity,” ..and should be included/considered as Germany’s fair share.That financial commitment to the military alliance shouldn’t be the only measure equated in their 2% commitment.


21 posted on 12/31/2018 1:56:55 AM PST by caww
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To: 867V309

I find it laughable that Merkel wants a greater role globally when in fact stated that She could end its military mission in Afghanistan if the US pulls out its troops....that it was “out of the question” to maintain a military presence in Afghanistan if the protection and support of German troops could not be guaranteed by the US..

She can’t have it both ways!


22 posted on 12/31/2018 2:03:28 AM PST by caww
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To: caww


She can’t have it both ways!

the elites, GLOBALISTS, unipartiers, hollywood crumb-bums, rinos, communist-socialist-democraps, snowflake college slackers, entitled minorities, government leeches, and other assorted riff-raff too numerous to mention, always need it both ways, otherwise their logic falls apart.


23 posted on 12/31/2018 2:12:46 AM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

24 posted on 12/31/2018 2:25:53 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

DAS BOOT!

Merkel isn’t satisfied with destroying Germany.


25 posted on 12/31/2018 2:34:06 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler
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To: 867V309

Well they can’t handle truth...they’re afraid it’ll spread and sap their authority where they’ve developed strongholds on society. So they continue to build up their fantasy world of unreality to retain power and leverage over the masses.

Of course people today are drawn easily into fantasy ideologies because it’s hard work to live in the real world as it is. Building a nice fluffy ‘feel good’ cloud around ones self is easy. Then when reality breaks through they still evade the truth by blaming someone else.


26 posted on 12/31/2018 2:35:32 AM PST by caww
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Have you drilled down in the employed/unemployed stats?

Where's the news of east german economic boom wher e unemployent was in double digits before the Jihadi migration addding hundreds of thousands of unemployables, or are these statistically ghosts, uncountable.

Mutti and her party lie almost as much as HRH. Same jigger pokery Obama used playing with US numbers, no? 7.1 % of unemployed males <25 yrs old is nothing to brag about

27 posted on 12/31/2018 2:43:06 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them newWhen s, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: datura

Good idea! And pare down the number of American troops in Europe at the same time.


28 posted on 12/31/2018 2:43:30 AM PST by poconopundit
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To: Berlin_Freeper

And half of Europe scheißt their Hosen.


29 posted on 12/31/2018 2:51:12 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Today Germany, Tomorrow the World...

Where have we heard that before?


30 posted on 12/31/2018 3:11:34 AM PST by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: House Atreides
She wants to solve the migration problem, a problem for which she is one of the people who actions vastly accelerated and magnified. and 3). Her solution for terrorism in her own country is to invite thousands of terrorists in. Smart woman?

The Global vision requires 'oneness,' or 'sameness," where all individual, national, social, and creational (i.e., male and female) identities are broken down and transformed into 'oneness.' The transformational process requires terror, force, chaos, and death in a way similar to the pureeing of many different foods into pate.

31 posted on 12/31/2018 3:12:23 AM PST by spirited irish
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"Angela Merkel: Germany to take on greater global responsibility"

Sure. And she wants to start by annexing the Sudatenland...

32 posted on 12/31/2018 3:16:23 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: House Atreides

Daughter Hitler has decided she must move against the global impacts of MAGA.


33 posted on 12/31/2018 3:19:15 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: dangus

“Just like last time.”

I’ve been preaching similar for months. Hitler’s global takeover was by brute force. This globalist adventure is via 5th columns to wreck countries before going military.

History repeats its self over and over, just different tactics and technology.


34 posted on 12/31/2018 3:25:36 AM PST by redfreedom (.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

It seems that this old Communist drab, Merkel, thinks the rest of the world should cede sovereignty to Germany. I think a guy named Hitler tried that once.


35 posted on 12/31/2018 3:27:03 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Good. They can contribute their 2% of GDP to NATO.


36 posted on 12/31/2018 3:35:53 AM PST by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: caww

But yet we’ll just buy most of our energy from Russia. LOL


37 posted on 12/31/2018 3:41:19 AM PST by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

With the release of this statement France’s manufacturing capacity immediately doubled. Almost all of the gains are in the production of white flags....


38 posted on 12/31/2018 3:41:45 AM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: datura

I suspect she’s just posturing because Trump has made it clear we aren’t going to p!ss away money on troops to defend Europe anymore. She’s preemptively doing what Trump was forcing them to do, and acting like it was her idea...


39 posted on 12/31/2018 4:20:26 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Yesterday it was implied that Germany was going to surrender their government to the EU in Brussels. Which is it, German Hillary?


40 posted on 12/31/2018 4:44:55 AM PST by hattend
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