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I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.

Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.

We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.

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.

It's not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe.

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem.

We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.