Ms. Schmidt (Germany) expressed support for Italy's position.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a practical practitioner of this philosophy.

Schmidt was the country s defense minister from 1969 to 1972, finance minister from 1972 to 1974, and federal chancellor from 1974 to 1982. Our own day and age may seem particularly tumultuous but the years when Schmidt governed Germany were anything but quiet.

For Schmidt, thorough analysis was a necessary prerequisite for all political action. He particularly abhorred an emotional approach to foreign policy.

The Zangger Committee was chaired by Dr. Fritz W. Schmidt of Austria from 1993 until his unexpected death in February 2005.

Ms. Schmidt (Germany) said her concern was that a considerable amount of time might elapse before the person learned of the error .

Ms. Schmidt (Germany) said she agreed with the representative of France that there should be an obligation for parties to disclose their place of business.

As Eric Schmidt said, It will be very hard for people to watch or consume something that has not in some sense been tailored for them.

Ms. Schmidt (Germany) said that the appropriate place of business in that circumstance would, in her view, be the place of business with the closest relationship to the relevant contract.

Ms. Schmidt (Germany) said that her delegation had raised the issue of whether it was possible to provide evidence not only of the method used but also of identity and intention.

Ms. Schmidt (Germany), endorsing the comments made by the representative of Australia, said that her delegation also wished to retain paragraph 3 (b), which would not, in her view, generate legal uncertainty.

Ms. Schmidt (Germany) proposed that the commentary should also make it clear, as suggested by the representative of the United States, that parties could not derogate from the mandatory provisions of domestic law.

Ms. Schmidt (Germany) proposed allaying the concerns of the Hague Conference on Private International Law by including a statement in the commentary to the effect that the draft convention dealt essentially with trade related matters.

Ms. Schmidt (Germany) supported the proposal by the observer for the Hague Conference on Private International Law that it should be made clear in the commentary that the draft convention applied only to trade related matters.

Ms. Schmidt (Germany) said that the rebuttal of such a presumption would be based on a demonstration of the actual location of a party's place of business in accordance with the definition in draft article 4.

Ms. Schmidt (Germany) said that she supported the more concise wording proposed by the United States which, in her view, rendered the phrase made during the formation or performance of the type of contract in question superfluous.

Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt once quipped that politicians who have a vision should go and have their eyes checked. That warning made sense in the 1970 s, when even young parliamentarians in his Social Democratic Party dreamed of revolution.

That warning made sense in the 1970 s, when even young parliamentarians in his Social Democratic Party dreamed of revolution. But Schmidt would never have imagined that there would come a day when there would be no politician in search of a vision check.

Schmidt remained a mentor to the German people for decades after leaving active politics. International crises, global order, and the future of Europe remained his fundamental preoccupations, and he saw a role and a responsibility for his own country in addressing and shaping all three of them.

The EU would become unacceptably diluted. That is why former French President Valéry Giscard d Estaing feared that Turkey s entry would lead to the EU s breakup, and it is why former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said, Accession of Turkey would be more than the EU could bear.

Ms. Schmidt (Germany) said that although an exclusion covering the subject matter of draft paragraph 6 could be made under draft article 18, paragraph 2, it would be preferable to include an exclusionary provision under draft article 9 because it was unclear which instruments for claiming payment were excluded under draft article 2.

Belgium followed the mainly French monetarist school, while the Netherlands shared Germany s preference for economic convergence before committing to exchange rate parity. Once President Valéry Giscard d Estaing and Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt made the joint Franco German proposal for the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), both Belgium and the Netherlands worked together to achieve that common goal.

Ms. Schmidt (Office of the High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States), speaking on behalf of the High Representative, said that the private sector could contribute to development by sharing capacities, knowledge and technology, which were especially lacking in least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States.

Merkel is not the first German politician to adopt a hardline stance on monetary policy and debt nor is she the first to face a torrent of international criticism. In the late 1970 s, when the world was facing a mixture of stagnant growth and inflation, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt insistently told British, French, and American leaders that their deficits were wrong and dangerous.

Ms. Schmidt (Germany), drawing attention to Germany's written comment (A CN.9 578 Add.8), said that her delegation believed that the scope of party autonomy should be restricted to draft articles 10 to 14 and that it should be made clear that the remaining articles of the draft convention did not fall within the scope of draft article 3.

Yet Schmidt was always a strong advocate of a close transatlantic partnership, which he saw as indispensable for Germany s security and foreign policy. In fact, his initiative to counter the Soviet deployment of SS 20 intermediate range nuclear missiles, a plan he set out in a major speech in 1977, was motivated above all by concerns about a potential decoupling of Europe and its US ally.