Weimar Europe?
Germany’s critics nowadays make two points: the real European problem is the German current-account surplus, and Germans are perversely obsessed with their past. But Germans are right to notice the parallels between conditions in Europe today and those in the interwar period.
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BERLIN – Germany’s position in Europe looks increasingly peculiar and vulnerable. In the chaos of German unification in 1990, when Germany’s neighbors were terrified of the new giant, then-Chancellor Helmut Kohl promised a European Germany, not a German Europe. Today, however, the terms of any European rescue effort are obviously set by Germany.