Germany means Europe. Post-electoral reflections on the largest european democracy. An Introduction

Never as in this moment has reflecting on Germany also meant reflecting on Europe. There is not one aspect of the current European public debate that is not also present in the German political agenda. Anti-European populism, migration’s management, sustainable economic growth, relations between Member States and European Union, change of leadership in established political parties, fragmentation of the electorate, difficulty in the achievement of stable and lasting government majorities: all these elements are on the agenda in Berlin as in Rome, Paris, Madrid, Brussels. This is the reason why studying the "German case" is also useful to fully understand the nature of the phenomena described above in a national, comparative and supranational dimension. The papers published in this volume are the results of the contributions made to the Conference “Which Germany after the Vote? Post-electoral Reflections on the Largest European Democracy” held in Rome on February 9, 2018 in the Faculty of Economics of Sapienza University of Rome, edited by Professors Beniamino Caravita, Andrea De Petris and Roberto Miccú and organized by the Department of Economics and Law and the PhD in Public, Comparative and International Law of Sapienza University of Rome.