As Chancellor Angela Merkel traveled Monday to the United States for a series of meetings across the country, she is now seen by her European and American counterparts as a leader reluctant to commit her nation to its traditional posture in Europe of Continental paymaster and cooperative solution-seeker. “In the past, Germany gave in to Europe,” said Nicolaus Heinen, an economic and European policy analyst at Deutsche Bank Research. “There was a social consensus due to the huge economic gains from the internal market.”
But now that “the war generation is stepping down, and Germany increasingly recognizes the new role it plays in Europe after reunification,” Mr. Heinen said, “this consensus is over, both in the Chancellery and among voters.”
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