For all its stolid reputation, Germany has become surprisingly flexible, but it needs to keep working at it...

Also in this special report:

Inside the miracle - How Germany weathered the recession

The green machine - A second wind for German industry?

Much to learn - Germany's education system is a work in
progress

What a waste - Germany scandalously underuses immigrants and women

Getting closer - But eastern and western Germany may never
quite meet

Steady as she goes - Angela Merkel and the art of the possible

A muted normality - United Germany is becoming more comfortable in its skin