German power games on IMF

[Hinrich Kuhls]

>[I talked with a German journalist living in NYC yesterday who said 
>that Schroder & Co. are much more aggressive about asserting German - 
>not European - power against U.S. "hegemony," which is the word they 
>use, than the Christian Democrats ever were or are now.]

Where there's a will, there's a way?  Or pride goes before a fall?

HK