The right interest rate for the French and Italians is too low for the Germans.

The good news for Germany is that investment demand is now growing, too.

To the Germans, the Chinese probably murmur something about Siemens and Volkswagen.

The appropriate level of the euro for the Germans is too high for the French and Italians.

As for Germany and the Germans, one hardly recognizes one s own country and people.

As for Germany, the 2010 federal budget features a record high deficit of well above 50 billion.

With some luck, good times for Germany, and for Europe as a whole, could last until the end of the decade.

Either she will succeed with it, or it will become a monumental disgrace for Germany and a disaster for the German economy.

This would be a better economic model for Germany.

Far more important, especially for Germany, is to get China to invest in and hold its bonds.

Political and social turmoil across southern Europe holds several lessons for austerity s proponents especially for Germany.

As a result, it makes little sense for Germany to compete to have more solid budgets than its neighbors all European countries have tied themselves together.

And it matters a great deal which narrative prevails for Germany, for Europe, and for the global economy.

The same result could be achieved, with less cost to Germany, if Germany chose to behave as a benevolent hegemon.

Maybe the upcoming German elections will allow progressive forces to clarify what is at stake for Germany and Europe indeed, the entire world.

Angela Merkel, the Christian Democrats candidate, is a reformer, holding out hope for Germany s future and that of Europe.

In 2011 and 2012, the United Kingdom stood out among the advanced economies in this regard but the pattern holds even for Germany.

In today s Germany, an overwhelming majority subscribes to the proposition that 8 May 1945 was a day of liberation not only for Europe, but also for Germany itself.

This was a major disappointment for Germany, particularly as it could no longer count on France, its main ally in Europe.

Here's a big map of Germany.

In Berlin, the question asked more and more often is, What does this mean for Germany? rather than, What does this mean for Europe? The same is true in other European capitals.

The Covenant and the Optional Protocol to the Covenant entered into force for Germany on 23 March 1976 and 25 November 1993 respectively.

She d made it to Germany.

The slowdown of global growth and actual double dip recession risks in the US and Japan will invariably impede export growth, even in Germany.

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In October of last year, the IMF lowered its 2013 growth forecast for Germany to 0.9 and to 0.4 for the Netherlands.

Large surpluses turned into deficits for Japan in 1973 and 1979, and for Germany in 1974, 1975, 1979, and 1980.

Britain knows that the euro s survival requires much closer political integration, and also that London s role as a financial center as important for the UK as the nuclear industry is for France and the auto industry is for Germany would be greatly damaged if the euro should fail.

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Merkel s post election agenda might still be very cautious, emphasizing medium term fiscal consolidation for Germany and the eurozone as a whole at the expense of boosting employment and growth.

Nevertheless, there is every reason to expect the German economy s upswing to continue for the time being. With some luck, good times for Germany, and for Europe as a whole, could last until the end of the decade.

But this helped Europe s small countries more than the big ones, and it implied more competition for Germany, Europe s biggest economy.

The best hope for Germany is that people both German voters and Chinese fund managers will take such promises seriously now, but forget about them in ten years.

Each member promised mutual support in the event of an attack by any other great power, or, in the case of Germany and Italy, an attack by France alone.

Instead, Germany had to be concerned first with feeding its own people.

That is because Germany, by far the EU s strongest economy, has enforced a strategy for overcoming the eurozone crisis that worked for Germany at the beginning of the millennium, but under completely different internal and external economic conditions.

It is up to Germany and France, Merkel and President François Hollande, to decide the future of our continent.

I was there, representing Germany so was Rowhani, who led the Iranian delegation.

Egon Krenz, the Communist boss of the German Democratic Republic, called it a botch.

In the final event it proved to be Lloyd George who pushed for more favourable terms for Germany.

Meanwhile, news of Germany's impending military defeat spread throughout the German armed forces.

It is up to Germany to live up to the leadership responsibilities thrust upon it by its own success.

And that will not be forgotten in the region, in the UN, or among Germany s friends.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke before the Knesset, the legislature of Israel, in 2008 about Germany s special historical responsibility for Israel's security .