Titlebook: Germany and the European Union; How Chancellor Angel Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(

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Germany and the Lisbon Treaty,ean task to relaunch the constitutional process during its EU Presidency in the first half of 2007. Indeed, the constitutional crisis could be overcome and the treaty reform process nearly accomplished. Germany adopted successfully the strategy to preserve as much as possible of the Constitutional T

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Angela Merkel and the Refugee Crisis of 2015: Events, Decisions and Consequences,ee crisis had been predicted for some time but culminated in September 2015. This drove Chancellor Merkel to the contentious decision, on September 4, 2015, to leave the German borders open for refugees and to coin her famous dictum “Wir Schaffen Das” (“We Can Do This”). The total number of people s

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EU Enlargement Policy in the Merkel Era,phical expansion of the EU and possible new members are adressed. For Germany, too, this is true. EU enlargement policy has always been an extremely effective instrument and a powerful lever to expand the sphere of action and influence of the integration community, and to contribute to the democrati

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,Germany’s Contribution to EU Foreign and Security Policy,f comparatively secondary importance. This is chiefly a consequence of the longevity of Germany’s postwar role concept with its pronounced reluctance to use military force. But due to the changes triggered at the international level by the end of the cold war, the EU embarked, with the Maastricht Tr

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,EU Climate Protection Policy and Germany’s Ambivalent Role,e EU has been instrumental in bringing about the first international climate protection regime: The Kyoto Protocol. With its “20–20-20 by 2020” formula, decided in 2008, its ambitious targets for the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 and the breakthrough decision of 2020 to reach for climate neutralit

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Increasingly Limited Scope for German European Policy: Parliament and Federal Constitutional Court,s European policy. Germany’s federal system comes in here. Thus, the rights of participation of both the Bundestag and the Bundesrat as well as of the Länder (the federal states) to Germany‘s European policy have been extented noticeably over the years. However, neither of them have used these new p

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2198-7289 Covers the most contentious policy fields of European integrThis book aims to present a coherent picture of Germany’s European policy during Merkel’s chancellorship. At the same time, it traces the development of the EU in the period 2005–2021. Accordingly, the European crises and the internal and e