Deutsche Ordnung? (O dylemacie skąpca i imperialisty)
Deutsche Ordnung? (Dilemma of the Miser and the Imperialist)

Summary/Abstract: The weakening of the federalisation trend and the EU’s internal solidarity was the inevitable legacy of the Treaty of Lisbon. The debt crisis of PIIGS zone has unexpectedly resulted in a strong front in favour of the EU solidarity, however, an utterly re-defined one. The purpose of this front is to temporarily avert the fiscal crisis by forcing such a change in the EU’s model which would ensure – by means of an extensive redistribution mechanism – the financial security to the bankrupt states-debtors and banks-creditors. Such a strange alliance of socialists, „markets” and the European South was resisted by the German Chancellor alone. As a result, due to Germany’s resurgent political power, she forced the Six-Pack and the Fiscal Pact which are regarded as the culmination of a pan-European Deutsche Ordnung that revolutionizes the European policy. Consequently, what merits redefinition is the traditional approach to such fundamental principles of European governance as democracy, sovereignty, freedom and security. At the periphery of the EU there is created a new form of statehood, referred to by the author as „mandate state”. These transformations triggered off a wave of anti-German reaction all over Europe, and they faced Germany’s European policy with a number of tough dilemmas. On the one hand, the world power Berlin „grows out of Europe”, while on the other hand, it would like to arrange the latter according to „the German values”. Merkel’s intransigence could indeed significantly alter Europe in the long term, but such a success is nevertheless uncertain due to a number of reasons. If Merkel loses her European gambling game, Europe may soon encounter changes in its geopolitics and the treaties which form its foundations, while Poland may unexpectedly face the question about its role in a newly ordered Europe.

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