In a Europe of multi-crises, weakened by the Brexit, the fragility of the Euro zone, rising populism, the pressure of migration, Islamist terrorism and the unpredictable nature of Russian foreign policy, Germany is more than ever a key element for stability. It is therefore not as in the past the "German question" that threatens European cohesion..

Can politics exist without territorial anchoring, ie without continual presence in a restricted area and without a sustainable link between political actors, local social groupings and spaces where social life and collective interests organize themselves?