construct he was for this to cause put up in that type and back when germany was politically more peripheral that it tried to convince the benelux countries of its interests so that they would push them on the agenda of that strategy worked back then is that the right concept for the future or is germany allowed to be self-confident in expressing its wishes and setting its agenda as the time that i get into setting dacha and the half north towards germany is not only allowed to be confident it has to be confident. but you can be confident without being inconsiderate towards this notion that germany must always be subtle and can't just be forthright in its demands no one in europe still thinks that the use of force or the globe to or. about us good it leads to trouble take the two recent examples when germany su and political leadership within europe and the eurozone crisis and the refugee crisis in the summer of two thousand and fifteen both times upon. little course was taken that was set by germany and both times that caused big big