German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, in a piece written for Funke media group on the first day of the international Munich Security Conference.

  • "It is high time that we think more about the international role of Europe, apart from all the homework we have to do within the EU"
  • "More Americans are asking, not wrongly, and not just since the latest presidential election, whether duties and responsibilities are distributed appropriately in the transatlantic alliance"

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