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Originally Posted by jonbxx

So walking away rather than running is the answer?

How would a nation state run the EC? The head is nominated by the Parliament and the other 27 by the council. Martin Selmayr is indeed German but he still needs to be voted in to position. The EPP seems to be the largest party but that certainly isn’t all German.

Hey, there are times when you raise things I haven’t considered which is great. It gives me the opportunity to learn new things which is always a good thing. However, you have not convinced me at all that the EU is some master plan for Germany.

It needn't be Selmayr. The newspapers put an additional name (an MEP) into the frame. The fact that Merkel is trying to get a German as EC President is all the evidence one would need of continuing German hegemony.

You go slightly too far in your interpretation of my words in saying that the "EU is some master plan for Germany". Yes, slightly. But, as I've said, it's in their blood (Deutschland Ueber Alles) and their people are very content with that aspect of Germany's ecconomic success; they don't want other EU countries upsetting that.