German Europe

Introduction: Will Europe survive? The decision facing Germany. - 1. How the euro crisis is both tearing Europe apart and uniting it (How German austerity policies are dividing Europe - the governments are for it, the peoples are against ; The achievements of the European Union ; The blindness of the economy ; European domestic politics: the national concept of politics is outmoded ; The EU crisis is not a debt crisis). - 2. Europe’s new power coordinates: the path to a German Europe (Europe under threat and the crisis of politics ; The new landscape of European power ; ‘Merkiavelli’: hesitation as a means of coercion). - 3. A social contract for Europe (More freedom through more Europe ; More social security through more Europe ; More democracy through more Europe ; The question of power: who will enforce the social contract? ; A European spring?)