That is why the crisis has become a challenge for the UK, Germany, and France.

Twenty years after reunification was completed, Germany has become one of the world s great democracies.

BERLIN Islamist terrorism has in recent years become central to security policy in Germany and many other Western countries.

It is sometimes said that Germany has become a second France in its selfish approach to the European Union.

Merkel s government does not include Germany s Greens, but the Green ideology has become a widely shared national creed in Germany.

To a large extent, Germany has become a second France in Europe, at a time when France is more French than ever.

Of course, while the German right threatens to become more nationalistic, history will not repeat itself, because today s Germany has changed, and so has its political environment.

The specter of a united Germany was not to become a reality soon.

Germany has done that admirably.

The eastern realm, which would become Germany, elected the Saxon dynasty of Henry the Fowler.

One notable exception has been Germany.

BERLIN Germany has made its choice.

Germany has the right to reject Eurobonds.

True, Germany has its share of problems.

Germany has historically never benefitted from isolation.

Germany has the same weight as Malta.

Germany has long standing ties with Afghanistan.

But it still took more than ten years for Germany to become the export powerhouse of today.

Since the November 13 attacks in Paris, security has become the overriding French objective. Meanwhile, Germany is focused on organizing the reception and settlement of a massive influx of refugees.

The project is often credited for leading to the boom in manufacturing of photovoltaic panels in China, which has dethroned Germany and the United States to become the world s largest producer.

The new, democratic Germany has drawn its conclusions.

Much has become clear.

Lahoud has become irrelevant.

Germany represents their first chance to be something other than refugees to become full citizens of a state.

Over time, and in a process accentuated by the recent economic crisis, size and economic might meant that Germany began to set the tempo of European affairs. Today, Germany has clearly become the point of reference for shaping policy on the most important issues facing the EU.

The subject has become more open to discussion, and it has become more acceptable to set limits.

The latter has a Soviet bullet hole through Germany.

Sami has become Layla's life.

It has become an obsession.

The division between debtor and creditor countries will become permanent, with Germany dominating and the periphery becoming a depressed hinterland.

Since winning the presidency, Hollande has won a parliamentary majority and pushed Germany toward accepting joint liability for eurozone countries debts. But forebodings of crisis have become widespread in French business and economic circles.

Then, unless the EFSF pot were tripled a move that Germany would resist the only option left would become an orderly but coercive restructuring of Italian and Spanish debt, as has happened in Greece.

But, now that fear of a global Armageddon has receded, Germany has turned inward.

Germany s new foreign minister has spoken of trying to recreate the old Weimar Triangle of France, Germany, and Poland.

But to say that Turkey has become more democratic is not to say that it has become more liberal.

The confrontation between Greece and Germany has been particularly nasty.

Germany has benefited enormously from the creation of the euro.

Germany has subsidized solar panels, as some hope Obama might.

My brother has become a priest.

English has become my favourite subject.

Sami has become my Islamic teacher.

A convenience has become a burden.

The violence has also become crueler.

Currency undervaluation has become a substitute.

For starters, industrialism has become obsolete.