Use a wide range of social forces to achieve European integration! Germany needs “the will to play a key strategic role”. And “Germany’s leadership role” is supposed to “revitalise Europe”. This review process has great expectations of German foreign policy in Europe. And it is certainly true that crises all over the world are an indication of the sort of challenges facing German foreign policy. However, German diplomacy can only be successful if it works with stakeholders from society and business, as Germany has swarm intelligence and is a pluralistic society. My contribution at review 2014 published by the German Foreign Office.
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