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Germany’s New European Policy: Weaker, Leaner, Meaner

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Germany’s Uncertain Power

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When Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer came into office, they claimed that Germany would continue its traditional pro-European course. The new government vowed in its coalition platform to further deepen and widen the European Union (EU). Sounding a note consistent with the German all-partisan pro-European consensus, and even before assuming his ministerial post, the Green party’s foremost foreign policy pundit, Joschka Fischer, called for a revival of the debate on the finalité européene.

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Harnisch, S., Schieder, S. (2006). Germany’s New European Policy: Weaker, Leaner, Meaner. In: Maull, H.W. (eds) Germany’s Uncertain Power. New Perspective in German Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504189_7

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