Helmut Schmidt: Germany in and with Europe

17/01/2012 By

You might have heard that at the SPD party conference last December former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt gave a landmark speech on Germany and the continuing need for European unification. The speech was widely described as an important part of the political heritage of the now 93 year-old ex-Chancellor. If you speak German here a video of the full speech:

For the rest there is now a written English version of the speech published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. You can download the text here. And please read it! It was a great speech!


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About Henning Meyer

Henning Meyer is Editor of Social Europe Journal and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Government Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has also written opinion editorials for newspapers such as The Guardian, Handelsblatt and DIE ZEIT and comments regularly on TV news channels.

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    17/01/2012 at 20:20

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  7. notanna1AnnaNotaro says:
    10/04/2012 at 12:15

    'Germany in, with & for Europe', from former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt landmark speech, SPD party conference last Dec. http://t.co/TdcV0V5M