Quote of the day

“My idea is that we will be very fast in getting a result for this government, and it should be before Christmas if possible . ... But doing so means also to work very hard on the good relationship between … the European Union and the United States. The trans-Atlantic partnership is of (the) essence for us in Germany … and so you can rely on continuity in this question.”

Olaf Scholz: candidate of Germany’s center-left Social Democrats after that party narrowly beat outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc.