Hat-tip to Frédéric LeMaître for reminding me of this: Maybe the biggest opponent of the apocalyptic, Thomas Mann-induced vision of a German Europe that Alphaville has been fearing and which I invoked in a recent post, might actually be Germany itself. Ulrike Guérot from ECFR has put forward an argument recently that Germany were in fact aspiring to become a global Switzerland. The logic behind that argument were to reside in Germany’s preference of economic ties over political obligations. The once famed German question seems not yet (or once again?) answered.
