GERMANY IS AT THE HELM OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Germany is at the helm of the European Commission. Indeed, Berlin greatly benefits from the accelerated ‘return to balance policy’. It is the only country in Europe to have an economic structure that is already balanced, namely because the country has a catastrophic demography. The country therefore does not have to face the problem of young people who have a hard time finding jobs. Further, the German economy is strongly turned towards exports and benefits from the strong euro and records enormous profits in trade to the detriment of its European neighbours. In 2012, Germany's foreign trade balance showed a surplus of € 188.1 billion- the second largest surplus since the introduction of foreign trade statistics in 1950. In 2012, Germany exported € 625.7 billion to EU member states and imported €577.1 billion from those countries (€ 48.6 billion surplus). Exports of commodities outside the EU amounted to € 471.7 billion in 2012, while imports from those countries totalled € 332.1 billion (€ 139.6 billion surplus) . By comparison France in 2012 recorded a trade deficit of € 67 billion.

All is a matter of imbalance of the European Union's general governance. It is necessary to relaunch Europe if we want to give it a chance.