Germany’s Growing Military Old Fears in France

“There was a widely agreed balance in Europe that France would be the geopolitical power while Germany would be the economic power,”  Claudia Major, senior vice president of the German Marshall Fund. said.

 “Germany didn’t want to be a political giant. Now Germany is doing both, as well as making an effort to embed its new power within Europe. This puts France in a difficult position. Their anxiety says more about France itself than about Germany.”

Within the EU and NATO, the new German military muscles give it more clout. Berlin has proposed a greater role for the European Defense Agency, currently led by a German general. 

Within NATO, there have been recurring jokes by US officials that the alliance’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, the key military position in the alliance that has always been American, may one day be German.

Bloomberg 13 January 2026

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-13/germany-s-defense-spending-military-strength-worry-some-european-allies


 - Problemets kärna är att det inte går att ha EMU om man inte vill ha ett Federalt Europa, styrt från Bryssel och Frankfurt, eller om det blir Berlin. 

Rolf Englund, Nya Wermlands-Tidningen, 11 juni 2001

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2016/07/anders-borg-in-fact-federalism-is.html


NATO was created to “keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2019/04/nato-was-created-to-keep-soviet-union.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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