Should We Be Wary of the German Bossy Boots? ; As Prime Minister David Cameron Meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Journalist Stephen Glover Questions Her Power Over Europe

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Germany has not been so powerful since 1941 when most of Europe was under her sway and her army was carving its way through the Soviet Union. I obviously do not mean to suggest the country is again hell-bent on that kind of world domination. My point is that post-war Germany has finally come of age.

For four decades after the Second World War, West Germany was a relatively self-effacing country, quietly focused on creating wealth, more than a little guiltridden, and happy to develop what was still called the Common Market in equal partnership with France.

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Should We Be Wary of the German Bossy Boots? ; As Prime Minister David Cameron Meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Journalist Stephen Glover Questions Her Power Over Europe

Then, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, came the painful and prolonged absorption of the old communist East Germany into the new German state. That process has been triumphantly completed, and the unified country economically dwarfs its neighbours and the other nations of Europe.

Over recent days, a European cabal led by Ang...

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