This Is the Seventh Germany, and It Will (Try to) Save Europe
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One of Friedrich Merz’s top priorities will be to restore Germany to the EU’s leadership seat and then set about achieving the EU’s military independence from the US—or, as Emmanuel Macron would put it, the EU’s strategic autonomy.
This article was translated using a human-assisted ChatGPT process. We’re continuously improving the accuracy and tone of our translations. You can read the original here. Since the unification of Germany, proclaimed at the Palace of Versailles in 1871, we have seen six different versions: the Second Reich, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, West Germany tethered to the US, East Germany as a Soviet vassal, and reunified Germany. With Friedrich Merz, a new kind
