Berlin Stories: To Maintain Influence, SPD's Hans-Ulrich Klose Says Strong Transatlatic Ties Needed

"The countries of the so-called West... represent today about 13 percent of the world's population. At the end of the century, it will be six to seven percent. If we want to continue to be influential in the world and participate in setting the rules, we should not grow apart. "

In the second part of our series interviewing representatives from the five major political parties, Sudha David-Wilp of the German Marshall Fund spoke to the SPD's Hans-Ulrich Klose about transatlantic relations in the run-up to the German election.

Hans-Ulrich Klose is a Social Democrat and a ranking member of the foreign affairs committee in the Bundestag.