Vous faisiez à l’époque partie de son gouvernement. On pourrait dire bien des choses sur lui et avoir une vision différente de la vôtre le concernant, mais une chose est indéniable: Helmut Kohl a marqué l’histoire.
Opinions differ on Helmut Kohl and there is much that can be seen differently from the way he – and you as a member of his government – saw it, but there is no disputing the fact that Helmut Kohl’s achievement was an historic one, in that he took Germany – reunited, free of every nationalistic attitude and of the desire to become a major power – and made it part of the European project.