What Germany teaches the world in a crisis

The reunification of Germany is a historic success. The Germans are mastering every challenge. It is time to rethink a few prejudices.

Thirty years on from reunification, the world still doesn’t quite seem to know what it wants of Germany. When its economy struggles, as it did in the mid-eighties and mid-nineties, it is dismissed as the ‘sick man of Europe’, over-regulated and hidebound. When Deutschland AG corners global markets, it is over-weaning and rapacious. We don’t want Germany to throw its weight around the world, yet we do want it to pull its weight.

What Germany teaches the world in a crisis
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