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That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and that it's an export nation.

In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

Europe is a collection of free countries.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.