«Γερμανία: ηγεμονική δύναμη ή ιδιοτελές κράτος»

Germany has drawn the most advantages both from the introduction of the euro and the ongoing economic crisis. The euro has made it a geoeconomic power and the economic crisis a hegemonic one. Consequently then, a possible collapse of the eurozone would make the country a primary victim. However, the strategy followed by Germany does not tend necessarily to the deepening of European integration but accentuate the increase insecurity of European integration. In the southern countries of Europe as subject to strict fiscal adjustment programs observed an obvious fragmentation of political forces and high liquidity in the political landscape. Next is growing centrifugal tendencies of the German policy as expressed by all countries of the South, but mainly from Italy, Greece and France but also from the northern countries such as Great Britain. The euro rescue can not be done by hegemony but only through cooperation. The policy mix that impose BY Germany can not succeed in long-term, because both 'necessary to provide greater liquidity in quantitative easing and a more interventionist policy mix (which) will help the EU to emerge from recession. In this sense the US Obama have a more rational approach to developments, considering that the real danger is a domino in the global economy (the so-called systemic risk) and not a supposed relaxation of the frame resulting in an alleged irresponsible behavior (the so-called moral hazard). Consequently the greater the American presence, greater will be the relativizing of the (mild) German force. A new and long period of German hegemony should depends on one hand widely from the role of the USA and on the other Hand from the historic resources available to the nation state in the European political and civic tradition and how easy is a new diversion to a nationalistic Europe. Indeed the EU as established institutions since 1950 and opposes preclude a hegemonic policy. Informal efforts to implement such a policy stumble at the end on the rules and institutions of European integration. If the EU was an attempt to resolve peacefully and within the legal institutions, those conflicts between states that previously resolved in the trenches of war, then today it is the political conflict to continue. In any case, it is beneficial to understand for all sides that the economic crisis threatens to become a crisis of legitimacy of capitalism in his existing form. The task today is to reform capitalism through social humanization of it