We are a country based on democracy, tolerance, and openness to the world.

the country will for the first time be governed by a radical who... will try to destroy the German model of consensus politics.

Germany stands at the crossroads where it is about whether we will preserve what makes this country strong: a social market economy in times of globalization, a policy of people in times of the threat from terrorism.

Hatred, racism, and extremism have no place in this country.

Free access to the single market will be granted to a country which accepts the four fundamental freedoms of movement of people, goods, services, and capital.

We need... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status, and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained.