This analysis concludes that the United States must play an active, engaged leadership role if the considerable positive potential of a unified, democratic Germany is to be realized.
The challenge now is to put nostalgia and inertia aside and tailor its role to a profoundly changed world, with a democratic Germany, a U.S. heavily committed to world security, and a resurgent Russia.
The killings have reheated the debate in Germany as to whether to ban the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD).
What has made war inconceivable between Paris and Berlin today is that Germany is now firmly democratic.
Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) had its worst result since the war, winning less than 21% of the vote.
But the chancellor is convinced he's looking at the bigger picture by tying Germany firmly to a democratic Europe.
But for young Jewish-Americans, the athletes from what was then democratic West Germany remained a group we met with deep suspicion.
Hitler's suicide in his bunker in Berlin in May 1945 was not what enabled Konrad Adenauer to lead a democratic West Germany.
Only 18 months ago, this political rapscallion of old hijacked the top job in Germany's Social Democratic opposition and then quietly lifted it off the political floor.
If you take the Christian parties in the world, you know, take the Germany's Christian Democratic Party and try to think for a second that it has anything to do with a party like the Brotherhood, it's outrageous, in fact.
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Herrmann made the announcement while presenting an annual report about threats to democratic order in Germany.
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The timing is awkward: Germany's new Social Democratic-Green government is still unsteady on its feet, and prone to send out erratic signals.
That is why democratic post-war Germany has been paying compensation to the victims of the Nazi Third Reich.
During the entire post-World War II era, the U.S.-German relationship has made a vital contribution to the growth of democratic institutions and to Germany's reconciliation with and integration into the West.
Engaging a unified Germany squarely in the camp of democratic, free market nations joined together -- and armed -- in a defensive military alliance is the best guarantee available of long-term stability.
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We all benefit from a healthy, democratic, self-confident Germany.
This is why it was worrying to see members of Germany's centre-right Christian Democratic Union, which held power in Bonn for 16 years until last September, take to the streets this week.
The city-state's ruling Social Democrats, who also run Germany as a whole, and the Democratic Socialists, as the ex-communists now call themselves, are deep into negotiations to run the capital together, after the breakdown of the Social Democrats' talks with both the Greens and the Free Democrats, Germany's liberals.
There was much angst in the 1930s, for instance, about the speed with which fascist Italy and Germany were building them, leaving muddled, democratic Britain in the dust.
In state elections in Germany at the weekend Merkel's party suffered an electoral setback, losing control of Germany's most populous state to the opposition Social Democratic Party.
"The political foundations from Germany are making an important contribution to the development of democratic structures, the building of a state based on law and the encouragement of civil society, " CDU general secretary Hermann Groehe said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the co-leader of the Green group, criticised the centralisation of power in Germany and France and argued that there was a "fundamental democratic problem" with delegating important decisions to the European central bank.
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) led the government that took Germany into the war.
Mr Schneider, a member of the opposition Social Democratic party (SPD), said some parts of Germany had an acute lack of training places for jobless youths.
But Germany's focus on discipline is arguably an attempt to fix a democratic deficit.
Scientology has been monitored in Germany in the belief that its activities are "directed against the free democratic order" in the country.
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One answer, Mrs Lagarde argues, would be to cut taxes, an idea supposedly favoured by Germany's coalition government, which combines Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union with the Free Democratic Party.
So the court wants to ensure that Germany does not surrender to the EU any of the core powers of a democratic state.
Without that rebellion, say those once involved (many of them now respected public figures), Germany would never have confronted its Nazi past or become so open, tolerant and democratic.
In Germany's election in September, the issue poses the greatest threat to the Free Democratic Party, Merkel's junior coalition partner which has a pro-business platform.
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