Archive for March 26th, 2010
From our correspondent in Berlin
Europeans will have to get used to the new face of Germany submitted to Brussels by Angela Merkel. Beyond the contingencies of domestic politics that fueled the intransigence of the Chancellor, asserted in a country at peace with both his past and uninhibited. Thursday, commentators congratulated themselves that Germanic Merkel has imposed its harsh conditions to rescue Greece. Bonn was the capital of Germany modest listening to its neighbors and allies. Berlin has become the standard of a country, focusing on their interests. It took twenty years to complete its moult.
"Never the cash drawer of Europe, welcomed on Thursday, the tabloid Bild, rejoicing that the EU will" break your teeth "on his" Iron Chancellor ".Germany post Third Reich was found in the European project in which positive invest.
Domestically, the social market economy was to protect against the resurrection of his old demons. Internationally, she played the card of modesty and reliability: Bonn merely a seat and do not skimp on the checkbook.
To Konrad Adenauer, Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl, great "European chancellors, the Franco-German friendship was both a guarantee of peace for Europe and a way to reintegrate the country into the community of nations. "Meanwhile the role of government within the EU has changed," says Vice-President of German Parliament, Silvana Koch-Mehrin (FDP) low fee payday advance !!!???!!!?? ?!!!. The EU was enlarged and the checkbook German shrunk.We can not get rid of conflict by using German money as before. "
Germany, which erodes wages to boost its exports worries its neighbors. In Brussels, the Chancellor who wants to impose its financial orthodoxy by being applauded by the media in Germany. "Who are the best Europeans?" Questioned Thursday's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "Certainly not those who go against EU rules, are willing to provide aid to Greece in the short term. Because the long term they also undermine the stability of the euro, encouraging other countries to conduct an unhealthy financial policy without fear of consequences. "
Angela Merkel is a continuation of his Social Democrat predecessor, Gerhard Schr?der, who had first felt the need to "normalization" of the Germans and had dared "decomplex" his country.It also folds to a reality imposed by the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. On June 30 last, the eight judges of the German institution had buried the European integration conditionally ratifying the Treaty of Lisbon.
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