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In its European policy, Germany pursued a number of highly divergent aims in the 1990s. Germany found it difficult to reconcile these aims, and to both widen and deepen the process of European integration. Initially, the tension was merely latent. Germany’s priority was deeper integration in the West; its aim vis-à-vis East Central Europe consisted of stabilization. The more German aims towards its eastern neighbours came to be formulated within the context of integration, however, the more hard-pressed German leaders became to define their priorities. It emerges from the following discussion that one of the obstacles of attaining Civilian Power objectives lay in the domestic institutions, which hampered German policy makers in a way unforeseen by those who created the institutions in the early years of the Federal Republic.
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Tewes, H. (2002). Germany and EU Enlargement. In: Germany, Civilian Power and the New Europe. New Perspectives in German Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289024_5
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