France, however, appears to be a greater cause for concern as its economy faces a number of problems that don't trouble Germany as much.
On Monday, Ms. Merkel said the new nuclear policy wouldn't affect Germany's renewable energy targets, which call for generating 80% of Germany's energy supply from sources such as wind and solar, by 2050.
It isn't only Germany's Europe of Rules that is restricting policy choice: Policy makers are also held back by fear of the financial markets and by their past promises, such as that Greece would be the last euro-zone government to restructure its debt.
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Turkey won't fall for this, and France and Germany shouldn't seriously push it.
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Germany isn't expected to make any decision before a general election that is due in September.
Germany isn't about to send the Wehrmacht to Rome or Athens to enforce fiscal policy.
He doesn't want his relationship with Germany to be like an executive board imposing itself on others.
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany haven't hit 100Tbps yet, but they were able push 26Tbps using just one, lonely laser.
For similar reasons, Germany doesn't want to suggest that bank deposits worth less than 100, 000 euros are protected at the eurozone level, either.
But if Germany won't lend to its eurozone partners, who should?
Virgin Mobile, a 50-50 joint venture between Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Germany's T-Mobile, parent of the One2One network, claimed year-on-year customer growth of 34%.
The Christian Democrats in Germany don't have that new liberal tradition, so I think it's very difficult to really push reforms through, and we really need these reforms.
The U.S. doesn't negotiate missile treaties with Germany, or Turkey.
To understand just how weird a development this is, understand that for Jewish-Americans of a certain age (I'm 42), rooting for Germany isn't how our fathers, grandfathers and Hebrew School teachers raised us.
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Even in Namibia, peaceful now for a decade, the ranchers--most of them white--nervously watch as the government restricts their ownership of rifles and diesel fuel and wonder if life wouldn't be so bad in Germany or the United States.
Ireland and Spain don't have the government budget that Germany does to help maintain wages and maintain employment.
"If we get a penalty against Germany I don't know who'll take it yet, " Bellamy told BBC Sport Wales.
It requires audit committees of independent directors to exercise broad oversight, but in Germany firms don't even have audit committees.
"Germany categorically doesn't want a European tax" where revenues would flow into the EU's own budget, one senior European official said.
If only we didn't buy so much more from Germany, China and Norway than we sell to them (curses), the massive net indebtedness of our economy might actually start to reduce a bit.
New Zealand prosecutor Anne Toohey said Sven Echternach, 39, head of the company's business development, had been in the Philippines but is now in Germany and wouldn't be extradited as he is a German national.
In America and Germany, patients don't even know how much most medical services cost.
"They've got 11, 000 of these things in Germany and it hasn't closed one nuclear power station, " Angela insisted.
"Because of the euro, people in southern Europe don't hesitate to express their disgust toward Germany, using old Nazi comparisons, " he said.
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