e246660446f86f380eeda228_ms7629.jpg Margaret Scott

Germany’s Drift from Europe

Ever since the beginning of the global meltdown last September, Germany's government has focused almost exclusively on national crisis management, rebuffing all attempts at a European approach. Add to this the tensions in Franco-German relations, the blocking of a common EU gas market, and close cooperation with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and the worries about Germany multiply.

BERLIN – “What’s the matter with Germany?,” people on both sides of the Atlantic are asking with increasing frequency. In Berlin, however, nobody seems to understand the question.

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