The German government has been working overtime to play down expectations for its looming EU presidency and it is not difficult to understand why.
In addition to a host of thorny international issues Germany will be confronted with when it takes the EU chair from Finland on Jan. 1, Berlin faces the monumental task of shaking Europe out of the torpor that set in last year when French and Dutch voters rejected a new EU constitution. Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed to revive that treaty — a huge challenge in a bloc where scepticism about the European project is on the rise half a century after it was launched in response to the devastation of World War Two.
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