Angela’s Agenda: Germany’s Dream Of European Conquest
The Der Spiegel Staff wrote a great piece about Germany’s dream of European conquest
Angela Merkel’s domestic policy in her third term will likely be confined to higher spending. But she has grand plans for Europe. SPIEGEL has learned she wants Brussels to have far more power over national budgets. It’s a risky move that EU partners and the Social Democrats are likely to oppose.
In the end, the atmosphere became downright festive in the Berlin Hall of the Parliamentary Society, a building next to the Reichstag. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) had met there three times in the last three weeks to sound out whether they could form a coalition government. The decision was still up in the air.
Merkel gave SDP Chairman Sigmar Gabriel a questioning look, and said: “Would you like to say something?” But Gabriel beckoned to her to speak. “I have my delegation’s support for what we discussed,” she said. “So do I,” Gabriel replied.
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