If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding my country, entrenching democracy and assuming the undoubtedly preponderant position in Europe. But a united Germany can't and won't subordinate its national interests in economic or in foreign policy to those of the Community indefinitely. Germany's new pre-eminence is a fact - and its power is a problem - as much for Germans as for the rest of Europe.
If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.
Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.
Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice
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