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These days, the Federal Republic of Germany is a continental power with ambitions to conduct foreign, security and defence policy in a global dimension. In the future, these policies will evolve towards a more open and dynamic demonstration of the country’s own national interests. Yet, it must gain support for its European partners from broad segments of German society, not only among the political and financial classes. Europe and the world will have to come to terms with a situation in which Germany will conduct more “German-oriented” policy, augmenting efforts to widen its influence in the regional and global dimensions.
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Whereas much has been said about the reasons behind Poland’s path to the euro, it has been less common to consider the potential interest in eurozone enlargement among its current members, such as Germany. This article offers an overview of possible, mainly economic, rationales that might explain the engagement of incumbents in expanding the common currency area. Abandoning traditional cost-benefit analyses and adopting other frameworks, such as improved competitiveness, cooperation processes or group interactions (games) might be alternative methods to analyse such interests.
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30. rocznica zjednoczenia Niemiec pozwala z dystansu ocenić skutki polityczne, społeczne i międzynarodowe procesów, które zachodziły w tym czasie w RFN.
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Germany is currently a very interesting example of co-existence of different cultures and nations. Among 82 millions of the country's inhabitants 8,5% does not admit to be of German nationality. Whatis interesting is that Germany regards only Frisians, Danes and Serbs as minorities. All other ethnic groups living in FGR do not have the status of national minority. Despite not having such status, there are many more or less official organizations gathering the representatives of each nationality. Some of them are of cultural, other of religious character, some of them are classified as groups and extremist organizations. Among the extremist organizations there are distinguished three groups: Islamic, left-hand extremist and nationalistic. It is characteristic, that mostly are those organizations branches of groups from other countries.
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The AfD’s performance in the European Parliament reflects its status as an absolute beginner. Not only is the party a newcomer on the European stage but it also has only been in existence for two years. The party has managed formal integration as a political group of its choosing, but it is not enough to become a fully-fledged member of the ECR. Internal quarrels concerning AfD’s ideological positions will foster its image as a controversial party. Such confrontations are nothing unique at the early stage of a new party, but if the competition between the wings escalates it will shatter the party’s federal reach, or even sink it completely.
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Several months ago the European Union and the United States started negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The agreement would lead to an integrated economic area between the parties. The talks, however, have been more difficult than anticipated. Germany is increasingly critical of TTIP, even though theoretically it would be among the partnership’s biggest beneficiaries. The article attempts to explain the scepticism of Germany, focusing on economic arguments and in particular its specific approach to economic growth and competition mechanism.
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Remaining outside the euro area while the European Union undergoes deep changes is not optimal. Poland aspires to the elite club, but it is far from clear when this might happen. At the same time, there is a perceived risk of Poland’s marginalisation as the integration of the eurozone progresses. Poland sees Germany as a key factor in its efforts to secure inclusiveness and cohesion in the European project. In these circumstances, it is worthwhile to reflect on the German perspective on Poland’s adoption of the euro and its impact on bilateral relations.
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During the Eurocrisis, Germany has provided and sustained policy leadership sequentially: first nationally, then together with France and finally in conjunction with the European Central Bank. While attempting to establish legitimate and effective crisis management institutions based on the principle of conditioned support, the Merkel government’s crisis response was driven by cross-cutting role expectations from domestic actors, i.e. the Federal Constitutional Court and the exposed German banks, as well as external role demands by Eurozone members, the ECB and international financial market actors.
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Since the beginning of David Cameron’s rule in the United Kingdom (2010) Eurosceptic sentiments have intensified, leading to a split in society, a referendum and, finally, Brexit. Germany was for the UK remaining in the EU, but after the referendum Germany announced the EU would negotiate hard to have its conditions met. Germany decided that Brexit provided favorable prospects for enhancing cooperation among the remaining 27 states. The most difficult negotiating items concern financial settlements between London and Brussels (ca. EUR 60 billion), the status of EU citizens employed and residing in the territory of the UK, and the North Ireland-Irish Republic border. The negotiations of a new trade agreement between the EU and the UK are also difficult.
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Is the German public eventually to wake up to “debating Europe”? What impact will the European campaign have on the new coalition government? How can the Social Democrats match their ambition of changing the majorities in the EU with their performance as part of a coalition at home? And how do the other German parties place themselves in the run for the 96 German seats in the European Parliament? This paper will show that, actual turnout and results of the European elections aside, the drive of the Lisbon Treaty has started to Europeanise political parties in the German national context.
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In recent years, Germany’s role within the European Union, especially the eurozone, has been depicted as dominant and even hegemonic. Its doses of austerity have been largely criticized. The article scrutinizes the European policy of the new grand coalition. While Germany plans to holds to its stances on reform and budgetary discipline in order to stabilize the euro, it has announced that it will play an enhanced role on the international and European stages. The first signs of increased engagement can indeed be observed in Germany’s contributions to resolve the ongoing Ukraine crisis. The EU, however, is facing additional challenges that call for a strong, pro-integrationist German role.
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In the past the basic issue at the core of the German question was that Germany had not been able to come to terms with its status quo. It wanted either a better place in the sun, more living space (Lebensraum, as it was called during the Nazi era), or merely national unity, justice, and freedom—in a peaceful way. For Germany to achieve any of those goals, Europe’s political framework would have had to be changed completely. But today, the opposite is true. Since the end of the last century, Germany has settled in so well into the status quo that its role in European and foreign politics has evolved. However, the euro crisis and the Russian crisis have undermined the foundations of this status quo and as a result have raised a new German question. The country that has shaped the status quo and has adjusted to it as no other has now faces the challenge of overcoming the status quo.
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In the paper the author analyses the main issues related to the leadership of Germany in the EU in the 2010s. Among them are the financial crisis in the euro zone, the weakening of the Franco-German engine of European integration, the crisis in Ukraine and the prospects for Grexit and Brexit. He indicates that the Germans, although quite reluctantly, are taking advan- tage of an economic situation which is favourable for them and have taken the position of un- questionable leader in the European Union.
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The pressure for reforms is similar in all established democracies, including Germany. This is true for all policies. Lower income caused by economic development and ageing societies is a burden on all budgets. ! is increases the pressure on political actors to speed up the decision-making process. In 2005 the grand coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD was welcomed by the German people. Many commentators assumed that the political deadlock would be overcome by the government of the two major parties. Because the second chamber (Bundesrat) is the major veto-player in the German federal system, the current CDU/CSU majority in the Bundesrat was a high hurdle for the former red-green government (1998 to 2005), as until 2006 about 80 percent of all laws had to pass the second chamber. This led to early elections. People hope that the grand coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel will overcome this restriction, which the SPD-led government could not evade.
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The paper reflects on selected parts from interviews taken by the author in Lune 2016 in Munich. All the participants are so-called „displaced persons”, who after the end of the World War II were on the territory of Germany. For different reasons they did not go to the West but also decided not to return to their Motherland. In the beginning of the article the author mentions the reasons of the decisions to interview Ukrainians in Munich. They share their memories about the time spent in displaced persons camps (about 10 years). The interviewees talked about Polish-Ukrainian antagonisms, which had taken place before the beginning of World War II, the unpleasant reality during the German occupation, the terms of work in the camps of the Reich and the divisions within the Ukrainian diaspora.
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In the face of changes taking place in the global order and challenges in the immediate vicinity of the European Union, the member states are forced to redefine their own security priorities. The directions of the desired changes in the EU Common Security and Defense Policy have been the subject of numerous discussions and analyses. One of the key countries that have a significant impact on the architecture of European security is Germany. That is why the main goal of the article is to answer the question about the role and importance of Germany in shaping the European Union’s security policy. The main conclusion resulting from the conducted analysis is the following: in the field of security policy, Germany’s attitude is characterized by high ambivalence between the implementation of foreign policy goals by means of the so-called soft instruments and the necessity and inevitability of increasing its own military involvement. The resolution of this dilemma is fundamental to the future architecture of the Common Security and Defense Policy.
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The text discusses the German geopolitical concept called Mitteleuropa. The author characterized the ideas of German geographers and politicians: Partsch, List, Neumann. How did the Mitteleuropa idea evolve in Germany until the end of the 20th century – the beginning of the 21st century? The question of the validity of this concept in contemporary international politics has been analyzed. The economic and cultural context is discussed.
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Homelessness is a social problem which in spite of its existence has not been successfully solved till today. It is very difficult for the scientific investigation and even dangerous for the researcher, also for practitioners who is involved in that problem. Therefore there is a postulate of the continuous searching for new solutions, and improving the existing ones. The subject of this article is the phenomenon of homelessness in Germany.
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These notes, made in the margin of a certain Polish-German project and its documentation, show from practical side the areas of historical rememberance that is present in the awarness of Polish and German university students. The concept of “recollection and reminiscence places” related to specific sites and events in history of Great Poland is provided with a commentary based mainly on so-called “participatory cognition”.
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We analyze the correlation between the European integration and incorporating Germany into the process of European cooperation. We point out that the European integration after WWII was determined by the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community in the year 1951. This Community made it possible to control the steel industry of the Member States (among them Germany) within the framework of the common market. It was aimed at stable and harmonized development, as well as at preventing an uncontrolled growth of military-industrial complex, increasing the production for the army and decreasing the probability of the outbreak of the next war. Then - after the deepening of cooperation (taking her new areas) – the European Communities (EC) were created. They are still institutional foundations of the EU. One of the main reasons of the EC creation was the willingness to ensure lasting peace in Europe and to create „security community” through a.o. incorporation of Germany into the group of cooperating states. In this paper, we analyze the security system components created (e.g.) by the EC/EU, as well as the origin and changes of their characteristics. We compare the process of German unification (and more general: of defining the German unity, and broader: unity of the German speaking territory) after WWI and WWII. The analysis of similarities and differences leads us to the present stage of the European integration, when the unification of two German states was accomplished for the price of German acceptance of deepening of the integration and the creation of the European monetary union. We analyze various consequences of unification of Germany and the creation of the euro zone. In our opinion, they go far beyond the economic or political ones, and are connected with the EU Eastern enlargement.
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