This essay intends to offer an alternative interpretation of Germany's role in the European crisis, based on a critical approach to international hegemony. Beyond the assumptions of the realist and liberal models, in fact, an analysis inspired by neo-Gramscian literature allows us to reset the problem of hegemony in analytically more complex and theoretically more productive terms, focusing on the socioeconomic dimension of conflicts in the European arena. This critical approach will be used to give a new interpretation of the role of Germany in Europe, from the construction of the Emu to the Eurozone crisis. With reference to the latter, the construction of the Banking Union will be considered as a case study, since it represents an exemplary case of clash and mediation between conflicting hegemonic projects, responding to different coalitions of social and political interests, and in which Germany and its economic elites play a major role in defining its institutional building and structural weaknesses
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