Germany and the European Union

Prof. Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet held Jean Monnet Chair for European Studies and International Relations at the University of Würzburg.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Angela Merkel as Europe’s New Hope?.- Chapter 3. Germany and the Lisbon Treaty.- Chapter 4. Germany’s Role in the Euro Crisis: Europe’s Disciplinarian or Indispensable Leader?.- Chapter 5. The Merkel Governments and Access Policies: Immigration, Visa and Asylum Policies.- Chapter 6. EU Enlargement Policy in the Merkel Era.- Chapter 7. Germany’s contribution to EU foreign and security policy.- Chapter 8. EU climate protection policy and Germany’s ambivalent role.- Chapter 9. Increasingly Limited Scope for German European Policy: Parliament and FederalConstitutional Court.- Chapter 10. Angela Merkel’s Taboo Breaking: The Corona Reconstruction Fund.- Chapter 11. German European Policy in the Merkel Era: An Attempt to Take Stock

“Practitioners and scholars alike will find great use in the detailed tracing of the decision-making processes on the EU level in navigating the poly-crisis. … Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet’s book expertly examines and demonstrates that despite the growing pragmatism in Germany’s EU policy, the successive Merkel governments adhered to the German raison d’état to make a continuous and substantial contribution to European unification.” (Niklas Helwig, German Politics, March 7, 2023)