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I'm fully aware that my vision of a European bicameral parliament can't be implemented tomorrow. I'm also not an integration fanatic.

Martin Schulz

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Martin Schulz
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: December 20
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German Politician
Non-Fiction Writer
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Keeping quiet and letting the others do the talking. That may be Angela Merkel's method, but it's not mine.
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Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks. Just a few years later, after I had entered European Parliament, the same Yasser Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize.
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I have no illusions. Of course, Russia is massively upgrading its military. We know that Russia is pursuing a policy of expansion. This is of course a cause for concern among Eastern European countries.
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I believe it is wrong to give Moscow a rebate on Ukraine sanctions because of Syria.
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Britain, Europe's second largest economy, a member of the G-7 and the UN Security Council, wants to leave the EU. That weakens us and it weakens Britain.
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