虽然连续性会仍然是外交政策的主旋律，但是德国在默克尔领导之下在国际事务中的表现和在施罗德的领导之下会有不同的面貌。
Although continuity will remain the hallmark of foreign policy, Germany’s international engagement under Merkel will sound and feel different from that under Gerhard Schroeder’s leadership.