Posted on 10/28/2013 11:21:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai
In Brussels, Germans have shrugged off their postwar reserve and make no apology for shaping Europe’s future, taking key posts in EU institutions and pushing Berlin’s trade interests with vigor.
As Angela Merkel forms a new coalition government after a third successive election triumph, the conservative chancellor can build on efforts, in place since her first term in 2005, that have increased not just the number of Germans in senior jobs in Brussels but the extent to which they answer to Berlin.
And where that fails to ensure EU policy acceptable to the bloc’s biggest economy, Merkel has shown she is prepared to lay down the law in person—as when she demanded an EU retreat this summer from a looming trade war with China that would have hurt the exports of Germany’s big car makers and engineering firms. …
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She is pushing for a new eurozone govt.
The Huns fought two world wars trying to conquer Europe and finally succeeded with the European Union. Watch them graduay increase their political power until all of Europe is under their thumb
I totally agree. I’ve been following this trend for a while. They will be the next superpower in my opinion.
No wonder Vladimir Putin is so itchy these days. Probably having nightmares about Teutonic Knights and Prince Alexander Nevsky. Russian nervousness about Germans goes way back.
...and some are even alive today to remember WWII atrocities.
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