BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's president reassured Europeans on Friday they had nothing to fear from Berlin's dominant role in the continent and said closer integration would lead to a more European Germany rather than a Europe forced into Germany's image.
In a keynote speech billed as setting out his vision for the continent, Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor and human rights activist from the former Communist East, urged people to look beyond the euro zone crisis and political upheavals and to view Europe as a union of shared values.
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