Germany needs another strong country, to serve as its counterweight And partnership With which legitimizes its economic growth, says the head of the Presidium of the Council on foreign And defense policy Fyodor Lukyanov. "One of the issues for Germany is that it just became too much - or rather, what everyone else became too weak. Today in France because of their internal issues, due to the fall leadership simply does not perform the function that it performed. Very important - This is a problem for Germany because Germany is in force prior to the necessary country that legitimizes its growth, " said the first day of the week Lukyanov in the process inaugural lecture as a Professor of the faculty of world economy And world politics HSE. by the reviews of an expert, otherwise " German growth will continue to cause more And more concern to other European countries. He added that among the factors directly affecting Today on the attitude of Berlin to Moscow, is correcting the balance of power in the EU And Germany need to detect the external counterweight after the loss of France. "in these conditions, surprisingly, considering the history of Polish-German relations are much more important Poland as a country first, very active, and secondly, a sufficiently large And economically successful. And this is the need to find a partner who at the Same time who legitimized the championship, leads, I think, to the rapprochement With Poland, " He said. Lukyanov said that the experience of reviewing And refining its previous first half of the twentieth century enabled Germany Today "to feel the moral right to occupy a position relative to the other - as it was believed that others have the opportunity to evaluate" the policy of other countries, " but the Germans did not have the opportunity due to the fact that they have committed in the 20th century ". Thus, according to Lukyanova, to believe that the U.S. administration has a decisive influence on German actions will be simplified. "It begins to seem that our understanding of the processes taking place in Germany, if you take public sphere that is very far from the truth. We can often hear the surprise, why Germany after the fall of Ukraine took exactly that position, very hard. There are such "simple" attempts to explain, sort of like what the American administration And other circles throat the German leadership, And specifically to Chancellor Merkel, And do not allow it to act as she would like. This is extremely simplistic, to put it mildly, speculation, " - said the expert. according to his vision, to deny a " close transatlantic relations, which for decades after the Second world war was cultivated And deepened between the US And Germany, stupid." Anyway, Lukyanov believes that in General the relationship with Germany And the U.S. are complex And contradictory. "On the One hand, Germany, realizing that her superiority can cause all sorts of emotions from other countries, most meticulously looking for the need for transatlantic unity, on the reverse side - the emotions that gave rise to the scandals espionage, expulsion from Berlin in the past year a resident of the CIA - all This makes a serious discord in the relationship of the capital of the USA And Berlin," explained Lukyanov.