From ideas to action

During the negotiations, we saw plenty of talk but little action. Now we have very few opportunities to take meaningful action. And as it is actions, not gestures, that determine our course, these must be taken with great care to ensure they have a strategic foundation, because we must then support them in practice. We are not now dealing with party statements, proposals or counter-proposals, but with national decisions being taken against a backdrop of retrenchment. These actions are therefore decisive. Consequently, we must not view them as proof that a crisis has ended, but as the beginning of a ... Read more