We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

It took far too long for this book to be written. But it also took a long time for Germany as a nation to be able to look clearly at what happened in the Nazi era.

On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.

The needle is oscillating more toward a grand coalition under the leadership of Schroeder.

Unfortunately a shadow is falling over Sepp Herberger. It shouldn't be overlooked that he let his national team take part in a Nazi propaganda film in 1941. He let himself become part of the Nazi propaganda.

This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions.

The government is taking decisive action against any activities which have an extremist or terrorist background.

One should be self-critical enough to say the DFB itself was one of the reasons (for the delay), there's no reason to beat about the bush about that.

When you look today at the Internet, and see the kind of racist and anti-Semitic filth -- yes, you can call it filth -- then it's frightening.