Mrs Merkel's Germany is Europe's one musketeer critics should stop accusing her of Teutonic arrogance

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Via +Philippe Vaccaro

Kaiser Bill would approve. A hundred years after he tried and failed, his heirs – a woman on top – have achieved mastery over Europe. And without firing a single shot – what an irony. Those nice pacifist Germans who refused to bomb Libya and to join the war against Saddam Hussein, who now polish their BMWs instead of their jackboots – these predators-turned-pussycats are now credited with fabulous, indeed planetary, power.

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Mrs Merkel's Germany is Europe's one musketeer »

The German chancellor's critics should stop accusing her of Teutonic arrogance. Why should she take on everyone's debts?

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