“Germany is back” EMU och tysk återförening

 

Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has started with a dramatic promise: 

“The German government will provide all the financial resources the Bundeswehr needs to become Europe’s strongest conventional army.” 

That commitment, made in his inaugural speech to the Bundestag this week, follows through on his election pronouncement that “Germany is back” and will now “really achieve independence from the USA.” 

Once Eastern Europe’s communist governments fell in 1989, the UK’s Margaret Thatcher and France’s Francois Mitterrand both opposed reunification, worried about the prospect of a large and potentially destabilizing Germany in the center of Europe. 

John Authers 16 May 2025
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-05-16/german-rearmament-is-a-welcome-war-dividend


In Strasbourg on Dec. 9, 1989, after the Berlin Wall fell, Germany agreed to monetary union in order to get President Mitterand to agree to German reunification
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2019/09/germany-it-says-will-never-accept.html



Annika Ström Melin: Tyskland har tröttnat på sin 70 år gamla roll
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/09/annika-strom-melin-tyskland-har.html


Den svenska utrikespolitikens eviga fråga.
 Skall vi följa Tyskland eller skall vi följa England?https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/03/den-svenska-utrikespolitikens-eviga.html



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