Our National Aspiration

Germany entered a new era with her unification on October 3, 1990. This day could only become true because of the desire of the people of Eastern Germany for freedom, democracy, and national unity.

Their call turned from " we are the people" to "we (the Germans) are one people". Our policy of European integration and Transatlantic partnership has earned us the confidence of our friends and partners who therefore supported our national aim of unification.

When the opportunity arose, Helmut Kohl seized the day and united our divided country peacefully. Our vision of Christian Democratic policies came true: freedom for all German citizens.

After we have achieved a unified country in legal terms, it remains our aim to achieve a unified Germany also in psychological, economic, social, and cultural terms. We want to achieve that aim with flexibility, courage, solidarity, and a public spirit. We have to learn to respect different experiences and ways of living. We want to be, as the great German writer Thomas Mann put it, German Europeans and European Germans.