Angela Merkel re-engages Germany as active player in European Union

Roger Boyes: Commentary
Times Online

Excerpt:
...Germany is about to re-engage with Europe. Having turned inwards for the best part of a decade, Germany is ready again to become an active, even assertive, player in the European Union...

...Mr Kohl — notably absent from the Wall ceremonies yesterday — always argued that, German unity and deeper European integration were two sides of the same coin. If Germany was to grow bigger, then, it had to reassure its neighbours — and not just a sceptical Baroness Thatcher — that it was embedded in the European Union.

...So Chancellor Merkel feels that the time has come to turn Germany outwards again.

...she wants a big German input into the euro-zone over the coming years of delicate economic recovery. Because this is exactly what her mentor Mr Kohl would have done.

All the signs are that this will only be the beginning.

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