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He did away with this fiction of the European interest being the same as the German interest. You can talk about national interest in a much more relaxed way today. The time was ripe for this and he acknowledged it. ... Schröder and Joschka Fischer, his Green foreign minister, deserve credit for giving Germany a more 'normal' foreign policy.

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