I believe that we must attach greater importance to the issue of industrial policy in Europe.
Freedom of opinion is a valuable asset in a democracy.
You don't restore people's faith in law and order with shrill tones, but with real policies.
For me there is no conservative and liberal party, not one that is pro-economy or pro-workers, not one for the East and one for the West. For me, there is only the one union, the Christian Democratic Union, that is our family.
We will look at the entire immigration question from the protection of outer borders through the asylum procedures to integration, in particular its efficacy.
The CDU was a party that united different denominational and ideological currents. If the idea of a rightward shift means that we ignore those roots and only define ourselves as a conservative party, then I am strictly opposed.