Germany looks confident of becoming EU's economic superpower - The Economic Times
MUNICH: For six decades, Germany heeded Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's advice to seek "not a German Europe, but a European Germany". The euro zone crisis appears to have swept this post-war caution aside.
Two years into the debt disaster, Germany looks increasingly confident in the role of economic superpower, pushing its model of fiscal discipline on the European Union.
But matching its new-found economic dominance with bolder leadership in foreign and security policy, something partners like the United States are urging on Berlin, is another matter for a country which has shied away from geopolitical power because of its Nazi past.



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