Quadriga - Goal for Germany: A New Role in the World?

Germany is an export power, a major economy led by a mighty chancellor, Angela Merkel. The country's president Joachim Gauck recently called on Germany to play a bigger role in European security policy. Is his country ready and willing to do so? What would more political responsibility look like - and what do other countries think of Germany expanding its role?

Is Berlin's angry reaction to revelations of US spying a sign of growing German self-confidence?
How significant is Germany in the world? And should it be? Is Germany the modern, successful and open nation it might like to be?

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Goal for Germany: A New Role in the World?

Our guests:

Pascale Hugues - Born in Straßburg, Hugues began her career in journalism at the BBC world service in London before moving on to become the English correspondent at the French daily newspaper, "Libération". Her job with the paper took her to Germany in 1989. Since 1995, she has worked as a correspondent for French news magazine "Le Point". She became known as an author after her book, "Le Bonheur Allemand" or "German Happiness" was published.

Bernd Pickert - A political scientist, Pickert worked as a freelance journalist for various newspapers. He has been working at the foreign desk of the Berlin daily “die tageszeitung” since 1994. His beat includes the US, Latin America and human rights issues.

Melissa Eddy - is the Berlin Correspondent for the International New York Times. Prior to that, she had been covering Germany since 2000, first as a General Correspondent for The Associated Press in Frankfurt, then as a Berlin Correspondent for AP. During that time she tracked the rise of Angela Merkel to the chancellery, followed the euphoria in the streets during the 2006 World Cup and the crisis in the euro zone since its earliest days.