对于他和从执政16年的科尔手中接过大权的那个团队来说，德国已经成为一个普通的国家，与欧洲其他如法国或英国这样的重量级国家没有什么不同。
For him and the team that took over after Helmut Kohl’s 16-year reign, Germany had become a normal country, no different from other European heavyweights like France or Britain.