Germany wants to signal that it does not have their own interests, but collects north and south and west and east. It is of course wrong. Germany is also a hegemon, who has interests.
Jana Puglierin comments on solidarity within the EU during the covid19 crisis.
The German government has form when it comes to tolerating policies it rhetorically opposes […] the Karlsruhe ruling made something impossible for Germany that it had long tolerated […] There was a sudden pressure to come up with an alternative
Jana Puglierin assesses the recovery fund initiative by France and Germany
Everybody in Germany and also outside Germany was lamenting the German paralysis and that Merkel was a lame duck and that Germany was absent from the global stage; Germany was not a true European country
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