And yet Germany is pushing hard for a new treaty, against the wishes of most others.
Money for rescues is being raised with joint guarantees, yet Germany will not accept common Eurobonds.
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Yet Germany emerged from the crisis stronger than any other big Western economy.
Yet Germany would not be Germany if it did not obsessively monitor itself.
Yet Germany has a deep-seated reluctance to relieve economic pain with deficit spending.
Yet Germany, the funds' main paymaster, has blocked previous efforts to allow this and there is no indication of any concessions soon.
Yet Germany, still fretful about turning a currency union into a transfer union in which it forever supports the weaker members, has dismissed the idea.
Yet despite Germany's glut of retail space, it is still reluctant to close any shops.
Yet like Germany, Austria is one of the most overbanked markets in Europe: net interest margins have languished below 1.3% for the past six years.
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In Germany the new and yet still small Alternative for Germany party not only claims that the euro is dividing Europe but wants some legislative powers repatriated from Brussels.
Yet however disgruntled Germany's business leaders may be, they are not the only cause for Mrs Merkel's concern.
Yet many in Germany are increasingly concerned that a looming credit crunch will squeeze lending to the country's middle-sized firms, throttling any hope of a rebound in growth next year.
The UK, France and Germany have yet to break into the list of top ten FTTH nations.
Yet few think that Germany's banks skew these exchanges' rules for their benefit.
And I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity.
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Yet now it is Germany, along with France, Portugal and, yes, Italy, which is almost certain to be in breach of the pact limits.
Although Germany has yet to even appropriate a portion of its budget to research in this area, military officials are optimistic that robotic support vehicles will be deployed to the armed forces within five years.
To put it yet another way, Germany is not ready - and may never be ready - to provide implicit insurance and underwriting for loans and investments made by Spanish banks, or Italian banks or French banks.
Across Europe, there are fears that Germany is becoming too powerful and Britain could yet be seen as a counterbalance to Germany's growing influence.
Yet outside the former East Germany, nostalgia for the past plays no part in politics.
Yet, like France, Germany and Russia, he wanted more time for the inspectors.
It turns out that Germany has, yet again, nixed a vital part of the international plan to save the eurozone.
Yet Europe, or rather Germany, now risks a reboot of a credit freeze that, this time, might be too large to thaw.
In addition, Lenovo has made or is making plays for PC assets in other regions, notably for Medion in Germany and for some yet-to-be-specified piece of NEC in Japan or elsewhere.
Yet it does attempt to improve Germany's two-tier board system in particular, by making supervisory boards better guardians of shareholders' interests, despite the presence on these boards of workers' representatives and ex-managers.
The report found that the U.S. has negotiated the return of more than 100 facilities to Germany since 2005, yet they haven't been included in the residual value settlements between the two countries.
Yet another Mittelstand gripe is that Germany's high income-tax rates hurt the Mittelstand more than bigger firms because, being almost all family- or trust-owned, they tend to distribute profits in the form of higher pay.
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