As the strongest creditor country, Germany has emerged as the hegemon.

The German system. In Germany, a stability council must approve state budgets.

As the largest and most creditworthy country, Germany occupies a dominant position.

Some members of this minority, which was predominantly sympathetic to Germany, attempted to undermine the new Czechoslovak state.

From 1930 to 1934 he was director of the Allied State Theatres in Berlin, Germany.

By contrast, the ratio in Germany, Europe s largest creditor, is only 3.5 to one.

In Europe today, reunified and reinvigorated Germany is the only country capable of assuming this role.

Consider Germany, the biggest debt transgressor of the twentieth century, according to the economic historian Albrecht Ritschl.

Germany, Europe s largest economy, is playing a strange, sometimes bizarre, role in the crisis.

In other words, it is the AAA of AAAs.

And yet today Germany is Europe s economic hegemon, laying down the law to miscreants like Greece.

That is clearly a substantial risk if the country is Germany or France.

And, while growth has moderated recently, Germany remains one of Europe s best performing economies and not just its paymaster.

At the time, German statesmen would assert that Germany had no independent foreign policy, only a European one.

Likewise, as France slides into a governance crisis and its leaders credibility rapidly erodes, the leading French intellectual Alain Minc has published Vive l Allemagne ( Long Live Germany ), in which he argues that Germany is Europe s healthiest and most democratic country.

In this sense, Germany, having stifled the evils of aggressive nationalism, remains the most European country in Europe.

East Germans wanted to unify the German state for the sake of the unity of their nation We are one people was their motto. Are Greek Cypriots seriously interested in reunifying their island?

Witness what is happening in Germany, a well managed country once thought itself immune from the troubles around it.

They regard the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany as the highest achievement of the state and nation that they inherited from the USSR.

This is where the United States really is different from France and Germany, while Britain has a similar tradition of distrusting the state rather than relying on it.

In practice, the state s reach often went beyond this conception (as, say, in the case of Bismarck s introduction of old age pensions in Germany in 1889).

Markgräflerland is a region in the southwest of Germany, in the south of the German federal state ( Bundesland ) of Baden Württemberg, located between the Breisgau in the north and the Black Forest in the east.

Pope Benedict, being from Germany, a predominantly Protestant country, does not carry the weight of this bitter history.

Germany even has short time allowances that enable companies to reduce their employees working hours, with the loss in earnings partly reimbursed by the state.

Of all countries, Germany which can almost be termed the inventor of the European Common Foreign and Security Policy has now dealt that policy its most dangerous blow thus far.

Behind such differences lie deep political and cultural traditions concerning the role of the state in everyday life. This is where the United States really is different from France and Germany, while Britain has a similar tradition of distrusting the state rather than relying on it.

Officially, the tax was devised to fill the state treasury that would have been needed had Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union invaded the country.

It is endemic to Germany.

In western Germany and in the newly privatized farms in eastern Germany, family farms predominate.

Indeed, it was thanks to the euro and the captive European market that goes with it that Germany today is the world s second leading exporter (China surpassed it in 2009).

The state was later renamed to Baden and became a founding state of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany, today simply Germany) in 1949.

Why did he remain in Germany?

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Falling for Germany

Finally, I am in Germany.

It was printed in Germany.

He served as Chairman of the Council of State and was thus head of state of East Germany from 6 December 1989 to 5 April 1990.

During the past decade, China moved from being the world s ninth largest exporter to its leader, displacing Germany at the top.

On August 23, East Germany s House of Representatives, the Volkskammer, voted for unilateral adherence by the East German Länder to West Germany s Constitution.

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They say that she was born in Germany.

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Germany and the United States have better technology.