The election campaign seemed to underline that Chancellor Merkel's key strengths lay in her unwillingness to take grand political gambles.
Instead, the approach to the euro crisis was one of taking small, pragmatic steps to test the results – very much the scientific approach of a physicist. It seems reasonable to expect this approach to continue, in the absence of a new crisis.
Many commentators seem to argue that this election result will not lead to dramatic changes in Germany’s European policy. If their time frame is five weeks, they are right. The correct time frame is five years, and that will be a profoundly different event in history.
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