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Mr President,Prince Philip and I would like to thank you and Frau Schadt for the warm welcome you havegiven us at the start of our fifth State Visit to Germany. In the 50 years since our first visit, ourcountries havelived through many profound changes. I am very glad to record that one of theirreversible changes for the better in my lifetime has been in the relationship between theUnited Kingdom and Germany.Mr President, it falls to a Head of State to lead a nation in the marking of anniversaries. Everymonth this year we commemorate either the centenary of a momentous event in the FirstWorld War; the 70th anniversary of a milestone at the end of the Second World War; or, herein Germany, 25 years ofreunification following the fall of the wall which divided this city andthis nation for so long.But, tonight, I would also like to cast backrather further in time. Last week in a water-meadow by the River Thames, I attended an event to celebrate the 800th anniversary of theMagna Carta. Of course, in common with other events in our remote history, the precise factsof 1215 are disputed. The consequences of the agreement between King John and his barons,however, are not disputed: for the first time we established in England that no man should beabove the law and that individuals as well as rulers have rights. Thus began the long, slow andinterrupted process of our country's evolution into a democracy.Tomorrow I shall visit St Paul's Church, wherethe first freely-elected legislature in Germanymet in 1848.The Frankfurt Parliament turned out to be a false dawn; it took another centuryand the loss of the most terrible wars in history to set Germany on the path of democracy.Earlier this year my cousins visited Germany to mark with you, Mr President, more recent andpainful anniversaries. The Duke of Kent visited Dresden and The Duke of Gloucester visitedBergen-Belsen. I myself shall visit Bergen-Belsen on Friday. These visits underline the completereconciliation between our countries.Germany has reconciled with all her neighbours. I pay tribute to the work of the Germanstatesmen since the Second World War who reinvented Germany and helped to rebuild Europe.I met Chancellor Adenauer at Windsor in 1958.He rejected the idea of a neutralGermany,preferring to anchor Germany in the West. His successors took up the challenge of unitingGermany asa member of all the institutions of Europe and the West.Since 1945 the United Kingdom has determined to number among Germany's very strongestfriends in Europe. In the intervening decades, Britain and Germany have achieved so much byworking together. I have every confidence that we will continue to do so in the years ahead.Since Berlin and Germany were reunited there has been much to celebrate. Today I cruisedwith you, Mr President, along the Spree. I saw fewer cranes than when I was last here in 2019.But still the most magnificent element of Berlin's skyline is the Reichstag dome, an enduringreminder of our cultural cooperation. Our work together includes every part of life, frompolitics to commerce, from industry to every aspect of the arts, in particular, music,museums and education.We also saw a wonderful example of partnership in education and science during our visit to theTechnicalUniversity this afternoon. The enthusiasm and interest our students and youngpeople have for each other's ideas and work is our greatest asset: the next generation is at easewith itself and with contemporaries across Europe in a way that was never the case before.The United Kingdom has always been closely involved in its continent. Even when our mainfocus was elsewhere in the world, our people played a key partin Europe. In the nineteenthcentury in the Russian Empire a Welsh engineer called John Hughes founded a mining townwhich is now Donetsk in Ukraine. And in the seventeenth century a Scottish publican calledRichard Cant moved his family to Pomerania; his son moved further East to Memel and hisgrandson then moved South to K?nigsberg, where Richard's great-grandson, Immanuel Kant,was born.In our lives, Mr President, we have seen theworst but also the best of our continent. We havewitnessed how quickly things can change for thebetter. But we know that we must work hardto maintain the benefits of the post-war world. We know that division in Europe is dangerousand that we must guard against it in the West as well as in the East of our continent. Thatremains a common endeavour.Ladies and Gentlemen, I ask you to rise and drink a toast to the President and the people ofGermany.-------- Designed By JinTai College ---------。