>> yes. that's true. so you would like for society to say great, large family. congratulations? >> yes, of course. but i think it's too bad that some people are saying, no, i'd like to have no children or to be single. it's too bad. children are great. what kind of future could we have if we have no more children, of course? i don't plan on it right now. i'm a christian. i'm a sportsman. i do handicap sport. but i think we're really behind in handicap people freedom. there are many projects. but we don't see them applied.

and i think that we should do around that another way. we should make more efforts about that. we have a lot of money. we're a rich country. we see what's happening in other countries. it's not done yet. and you see a whole lot of older people, too, who have limited freedom because of their age. and what's your problem on the daily basis? in many stores kint gi can't ge. the doors are too narrow. when twunt you want to go to th public toilets, you can't get in. when there is a sports event, you can't go to the toilet. you can't go through the door. and i think that in germany we should see abroad what other countries are doing. and, of course, we are a huge amount of regulation. but they're not all applied. i take note of that.

and unfortunately take it to ten years before the law is fully translated and applied. i think we made a lot of progress. i take note. it's a wonderful subject. and next week i'm going to talk to the handicap council. but you're right. you're right. it's not only for the handicap. it's for the old people who have the same problem very often. when you see how hard it is to cross the street, for instance, what kind of sports are you doing? i'm doing wheelchair basketball. i mean the federal league. the first league. i train seven time a week. i play on the weekend.

i could talk about other topics. let's leave it at that, handicap freedom. i'll follow that. other advice? right now i'm working in textile factoblem s the basis for good living together in society. that is to say, we should have jobs for everybodyo their skills. and it is very important for us or the future, it's notin quite there yet. but in the future, if you look at our industry, we're going to

stick maybe germany tag on products that are made of raw. so we should go back to innovation, with new technology. we should start from the bottom up and create new jobs so emplo. and we no longer have to pay unemployment allowances the way we do now. so people would earn money again and with wages they couldn't live with. and so we could get rid of this humungous amount of money that we pay for unemployment, people who have self value and have a job. and that will be the basis for the next ten years. and i'm sure you could have an influence on that. it's a problem that we're talking about a great deal.

of course we are also talking about specialized skills. a lot of people are building machines, for instance. but you also have people who are not rocket scientists on the other hand. so it's always difficult to find a job that we need. i hope that through globalization, if you look at china and other places, their wages are going to go up and up. and so we're going to come to a better balance. how can we retain jobs? of course, that's a big question for us. but for you, your industry is doing well? no. no. i know that we're all going to do well. i know it. i talk with several leaders. we talked about all this. it is possible to re-create jobs.

i heard the young lady talk about education. and i've been dealing with education since the beginning of my life. but i have a wish. i think thatwho are independent the same working conditions as volunteers as administration. and so i think that independent people should be encouraged to be independent. and, therefore, continuity is a challenge. and look at, for instance, the cultural scene. you have a lot of people who do theater, who do dancing, who do poetry. all these people are independent. and not a whole lot sin veis in

in these people. i think this is going to be bad for our descendents for the children if we neglect culture. there's a great potential for young people. i think we should encourage music, musicians and other people. so give more latitude to people who are independent. well, culture should be encouraged. otherwise, we're not going to be a cultural nation. so i think culture should not be compulsory. but everybody, of course, can be in culture. but you're right. you're absolutely right. a country that neglects its culture can no longer claim to be cultural. this is true. the lady in the front?

and then we'll go on the other side. i work in school. i think for education we should dedicate ourselves much more on theory and practice and i think that we should send our children to old folks home and in places where there are lots of handicap people. so they get to know the old and the handicapped. and so, perhaps, i think people would have better values. so that people would learn to live together with different people instead of being scared or fear them. and also the old no longer fear the young. and so people say i don't know what to do with these old folks or these handicapped. it should be part and parcel of

our education if we want to live together. yes, we should send these people more for practice than spend so much time in theory. i'm an old guy so i need so sit down, i'm sore yimery. we must sit at some point. i'm 12 years old. and i go to school. i think we should spend more time with our family. and we could also save energy and so, for instance, we should play games with the family instead of watching television. so we do both. >> good idea. or you could decide that one day you no longer need facebook nor twitter because all that, of course, is going to be part and

parcel. >> you should spend more time together rather than watching tv and having foreign ideas your head, yes. on this side, i think. thank you. i come from next door. seven years ago i decided to be an interpreter. and i work at the iak. when you see people are trying to have education and also when you see the trainees that we have on the market, you see that it's more and more difficult to hire the right people, people would are trained right. people usually are very poor in the german language and in math. i think this goes back to the roots of education.

very often we don't have the basic skills in many schools. and also people don't know how to get up early. they don't know how to be doese only from the schools. it also comes from the family. i have two children myself. and my children are very active in sports clubs. and, of course, they played in school sports clubs. and this gentleman mentioned earlier that people, for instance, people that are single fathers don't have the time to take their kids to sports all the time. but i think that we also do otherwise. it's a call. i'm calling up on the schools to go back to school teams so that our children could learn from

school again. our children have no more values, common values. i think that if you're playing a sport, you learn to play in commonment you learn to lose. you learn to win together. and this is great to train you and to prepare you for a professional life. i think it's a basic training that children will cherish the rest of their life. th of course, this goes back to independent workers. i think we germans, we are too theoretical. you're independent. you have the school. you have the rules. i think there could be an infinite number of combinations.

you're saying that the schools should teach more so that we don't give the entire responsibility to the parents. what about the young people there? this gentleman looked at his neighbor. his neighbor must be his boss, right? i'm 58 and i'm head of the savings bank. i heard all the wishes. but i think people should think about the budget, the state budget. because, of course, without money, nothing works. everything must be financed. and i think that we should also when we talk about politics and we talk about society and the economy, people should be more realistic. they should be aware of realities. how can we finance all that and what i'm saying is that

altogether, we should no longer think that the state is all powerful and can do anything. i think we should realize this. all the generations should think about that. and i must temperature yl tell instance, the budgets are much tighter and the demographic shows we're going to have less and less for the government and we should have a better communication. we should not hide reality. and we need this and that. i think people should see how we can finance all this. then we can talk. yes, of course. there's a lot of wishes. it would be good for our children and the future.

but it would not be fair if we didn't talk about the possibilities, of course. i think we should come to the second theme of security. a couple more questions. i'm a student. my problem is children who have cancer. and we are trying to visit them and we would like to read books to children who have cancer. but recently people said we can't do it anymore. it's very sad. because people built a wall. there's no access for us anymore. they have said teachers should do that, profession oals.

and students can no longer help, can no longer read books to these kids. it's sad. it was very important four us. and they're normal children like us. because, it's not because they're sick that we can no longer deal with them. so my wish would be that we should have better access to these children. two things, your concrete example is very good. i think we make it possible that students do something for other children who are in a more difficult situation because of their human interests.

i've been dealing with this subject for a long time. how can we trust each other through more participation from citizens? many citizens are unhappy by the decisions taken by different authorities. and this turns into citizens initiatives. i'm the chairman of a citizens initiative. 50 billerure # -- 50 billion euro are frozen. this say lot of money. there's a lot of frustration, a lot of anger. and i know there's a draft law in the federal government in order to make more transparent government decisions. just been adopted.

>> no, it goes in the right direction, of course. and then we can be more transparent. and the citizens can feel like are participating again. yeah, we're going to talk about that for the next few years and we should always learn politics. every big project, the train station is different from the frank furt airport, different from wind farms, different from we're going to have a place where citizens can say what they think, tell us what has worked . so in the next five and ten years, we have to have a better and better dialogue to see what is best. when should we consult the citizens? not too early. not too late. but this is, of course, a totally new terrain for us.

right behind him. yes. i'm one of the older gentlemen, you can tell. i have a wish, mrs. chancellor. in the newspaper, for instance, we see your government would like to have new law for pensions. an equallization of all pensions between the east and the west. there is 20 years of reunification of germany. young people today will be the retired people of tomorrow. and i think at one point we

should equalize, balance the two pensions. and i know that in may there's going to be seniors day in hamburg. i think they're going to present a solution so that finally we have the same amount of pensions. yes, i'll be president this seniors day. i think for the young people for the next five to ten years, it's not the problem. but there will be pensions in 30, 40 years, of course. we must be very careful so that people are going to have less pension than what they get today. and that in the future people do not get less either. we have to discuss that with the prime ministers of all ten new groups so that there is no political controversy. we have to find a common solution. we're working on it.

we're not there yet. with more rights, more balance. mrs. chancellor, we're going o go to the next theme. security, safety, and there, to, we have a small video for before you we go to this subject. >> translator: the germans live in a safe country. peace inside, peace with european neighbors. no threats of war by any country. i think that in germany we have more security than anywhere else in europe. there are a few incidents in the metro or freeway. otherwise, i feel very safe.

no, think we're very safe here in germany. of course, perhaps there could be a few more cops in the street. but otherwise, we're okay. violence that is ideologically much evaded against foreigners happens. and this has made us more aware. if we do nothing, we're going to have neighborhoods where there is going to be high unemployment, crime, violence and, of course, we have to work very long years if you let that go. and there is another danger. corruption and white collar criminality which have huge consequences on our society and the economy. a big problem in the future is cyber criminality. very often the young are the

victims. radicalization, calls for violence are more and more prevalent. how can we prevent the radicals and radicalization from some extreme groups? how can we make it so that victims and criminals are reintegrated in our society? how can we have more security but keep our freedom, our individual freedom? so security in the future of germany here. of course, this is sign for our intact society. year going to start with you, yes. i think that we must do everything to try to stop extreme right ideology.

it is present in the schools. we should explain to students what is going on especially when you have extreme right radicals who are creating sports groups, wire like the pied piper and the guys of leisure, they're attracting a lot of idol kids and indoctrinating them. we should not have in this country what happened in the past. we should keep our eyes open and do something for the kids so that they're not captured by these people. and we have to act immediately. you have met such groups yourself? you have? even in my family i've had discussions with my oldest grandchild. of course, he has been interested by these groups. and he said bad words about

foreigners. he wanted immigrants to go back home and i said my god. what group are you involved with? i think if people should talk about that, the families should intervene to prevent it. i think the whole of our society is responsible. the parents must intervene, the grandparents, naturally, and especially the grandparents who have gone through world war ii. it starts with little things. if you're not responsible, you don't deal it with, then you'll have discrimination in the end. thank you. >> i have the following question. for years and years we wanted to stop the npd. we never managed to prevent them. now we have the extreme right

radicals. they are allowed to do what they want. shouldn't we limit the activities so that they cannot spread the ideology? i know we live in a democracy and that the extreme right can say what they want. fay party supports that, this party must be gotten rid of. of course, i take note of what you said. and we have talked about that. of course, we have asked to forbid the npd party, you know. that but the supreme party in germany said we couldn't do that. so what happens if we make a second request and it is denied again? so the npd will find itself encouraged. the problem is that you know you can forbid the party. but the people are still there. it's in the heads that it

happened. yes, but they shouldn't go out in public and spread the ideology. that should be stopped and limited and restricted. i know people have these ideas and we should also see what is the fine line between freedom and thoughts. and, of course, there's a cat and mouse game because the cities have forbidden gatherings the right-wing people but the state allows it so they go from one to the other. yes? >> i take note of your proposal. i can tell you it is independent. it is a good thing. of course, if i were to work with justice, we have to live with that.

yes, but we have to prevent that from having the possibility to spread their ideals. we're use anything possibility that we have but also what is legal. we have a lot of hands now. security. the lady? i'm a principal in a small school. i want to talk about generations. and now we're talking about security and then we're going to talk of identity. all discussions go back to school. what can the school do? and today i would asked for you to invest need much more investment in the children. and, of course, this will be

more security for the parents, more security for the children. our young people need to know where to go in a safe place. and anybody is entitled to live in a safe area. and we have to tell the children so that later on we don't have these huge costs to try to get back our security and our safety. so my wish is that in the federal government we should give priorities to schools and to children. the young lady just said i think in terms of education policy, federalism should be absolutely a must. it should be binding. so you say more investment. you mean more teachers, better equipment, but especially more possibilities for