Germany has completely taken on “its natural leadership role in the EU’s economic and monetary affairs,” according to the European Council on Foreign Relations. Over the past ten years, the Federal Republic of Germany has become the EU’s undisputed strongest power. “Political elites in all states agree that Germany is the most influential member state.” Consequently Germany’s “EU partners” need to “decide how to handle Germany’s power.”
More recently, Berlin has also “taken a greater role in foreign and security policy. It has “played a pivotal role” in responding to Europe’s three “major foreign policy challenges of 2015,” including the conflict in the Ukraine, the latest eruption of the economic crisis in Greece, and the refugee crisis. Recently, the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag, Norbert Röttgen (CDU), confirmed in a media interview: “We must get used to the fact that we clearly have a leadership role in the EU.”
“By itself,” Germany is “too small to effect global policy changes,” but when it uses the EU nations to “pull together in questions of integration and foreign policy,” then Europe will have the “political clout that Germany needs to achieve its interests.”
Not everyone is happy with this arrangement. There is “frustration over German dominance.” “Germany’s political class” continues to see the EU as “the best available framework for the articulation of its national interest,” rather than the interests of the EU as a whole.
In addition, “Berlin has begun taking a more pragmatic approach toward NATO.” It no longer insists on solutions being sought within the EU framework, which insure German predominance. Berlin is also prepared, when necessary, to resort to NATO resources when more feasible.
The German question, or how the rest of the EU nations should relate to Germany’s power, is “back to the center of European politics.” Berlin’s partners in the EU will have “to decide how to deal with Germany’s strength.” It’s not going away and it “will not be balanced like it was before unification in 1990.”
Berlin is pursuing an openly globalist policy, which includes preparations for war; such as a massive military and intelligence service buildup, and is demanding that its EU partners do the same. “The objective must be a common European military,” declared Germany’s Minister of the Economy and Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) in July. Several proposals have been passed recently by the Bundestag, such as the “Concept of Civil Defense,” which includes a state of emergency constitution that leads to new heights in domestic surveillance and repression throughout the EU. Recently Germany’s Minister of the Interior called for “intensification of exterior border controls” and an “entry and departure index,” in which even EU citizens are systematically registered every time they cross a border. When taken together, these proposals point toward preparation for war.
“And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of war.” Matthew 24:6.