Robert Habeck, German Vice-Chancellor and Green party candidate for the upcoming federal election on 23 February, criticises US President Donald Trump and proponents of "Germany first" ideas in a speech at the party's pre-election rally in Berlin.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00If Germany does not clearly commit to keeping Europe together and not to say in a nationalist
00:07ecstasy of America first, Germany first, then this election will go badly.
00:14We need a clear commitment where Germany stands for the others.
00:17But we don't need Germany first or Italy first or France first, but we need a clear
00:23understanding that Europe must stand together in this challenging time.
00:27And if you don't live that, if you don't think that, if you don't think that to the end,
00:32then a government cannot lead.
00:34Germany must want to make the difference.
00:36It is no coincidence that he says, drill, baby, drill.
00:39Because that means burn, planet, burn.
00:42The lobbyism, the oil and gas companies and the autocratic regimes, they fit well together.
00:48It is a joint fight against global warming and for democracy.