| dc.description.abstract | The paper deals with the important issue of European policy at the beginning of the 21st
century and the role Germany, one of the leading EU countries, played therein. On the one
hand, the analysis focuses on the internal and external factors shaping the decision-making
process in the EU as well as on its subsequent stages. On the other hand, the author discusses
the attitude of Germany towards the reforms and the enlargement of the EU in 2007–2009
and this country’s role in euro zone debt crisis until the middle of 2010. In conclusion of his
article, the author summarises the results of German European policy at the beginning of the
21st century and points to the possibility of closer cooperation in this field between Germany
and Poland. Retrospectively, the predictions and assessments included in this article, written
in the autumn 2010, were proved largely correct by the subsequent developments of the debt
crisis. | en |
