Germany

=== Foreign relations ===
{{Main|Foreign relations of Germany}}
[[File:Group photo of the G7 members at the Scholss Elmau summit (2).jpg|thumb|Germany hosted the [[2022 G7 summit]] at [[Schloss Elmau]] in [[Bavaria]].]]
Germany has a network of 227 diplomatic missions abroad<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/aamt/auslandsvertretungen |title=The German Missions Abroad |publisher=German Federal Foreign Office |accessdate=29 March 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327191034/https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/aamt/auslandsvertretungen |archivedate=27 March 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> and maintains relations with more than 190 countries.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/aamt/auslandsvertretungen/botschaften-node |title=The Embassies |publisher=German Federal Foreign Office |accessdate=29 March 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327191019/https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/aamt/auslandsvertretungen/botschaften-node |archivedate=27 March 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> Germany is a member of [[NATO]], the [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development|OECD]], the [[G7]], the [[G20]], the [[World Bank]] and the [[International Monetary Fund|IMF]]. It has played an influential role in the European Union since its inception and has maintained a [[Franco-German cooperation|strong alliance with France]] and all neighbouring countries since 1990. Germany promotes the creation of a more unified European political, economic and security apparatus.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ambafrance-uk.org/Declaration-by-the-Franco-German,4519.html |title=Declaration by the Franco-German Defence and Security Council |date=13 May 2004 |publisher=French Embassy UK |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327015942/http://www.ambafrance-uk.org/Declaration-by-the-Franco-German%2C4519.html |archivedate=27 March 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/world/europe/04iht-poll.4.11666423.html |title=The leader of Europe? Answers an ocean apart |last=Freed |first=John |date=4 April 2008 |work=The New York Times |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501031326/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/world/europe/04iht-poll.4.11666423.html |archivedate=1 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/blob/610644/49a58b5ecfd5a78862b051d94465afb6/gestaltungsmaechtekonzept-engl-data.pdf|title=Shaping Globalization – Expanding Partner-ships – Sharing Responsibility: A strategy paper by the German Government|publisher=Die Bundesregierung|accessdate=29 March 2020|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329142145/https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/blob/610644/49a58b5ecfd5a78862b051d94465afb6/gestaltungsmaechtekonzept-engl-data.pdf|archivedate=29 March 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> The governments of Germany and the United States [[Germany–United States relations|are close political allies]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-germany/|title=U.S. Relations With Germany|date=4 November 2019|publisher=US Department of State|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200331094945/https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-germany/|archivedate=31 March 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Cultural ties and economic interests have crafted a bond between the two countries resulting in [[Atlanticism]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://germany.usembassy.gov/germany/img/assets/9336/econ_factsheet_may2006.pdf |title=U.S.-German Economic Relations Factsheet |date=May 2006 |publisher=U.S. Embassy in Berlin |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511123309/http://germany.usembassy.gov/germany/img/assets/9336/econ_factsheet_may2006.pdf |archivedate=11 May 2011 |accessdate=26 March 2011}}</ref> After 1990, [[Germany–Russia relations|Germany and Russia]] worked together to establish a "strategic partnership" in which [[energy development]] became one of the most important factors. As a result of the cooperation, Germany imported most of its natural gas and crude oil from Russia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/Ch8Doc13English.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814094438/http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/Ch8Doc13English.pdf |archivedate=14 August 2017 |title=Volume 10. One Germany in Europe, 1989–2009 Germany and Russia |date=13 March 2006 |publisher=German Institute for International and Security Affairs |accessdate=3 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| url= http://www.eprg.group.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/binder13.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091122110120/http://www.eprg.group.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/binder13.pdf |archivedate=22 November 2009| title= A Market Between Us: Reducing the Political Cost of Europe's Dependence on Russian Gas| publisher=[[University of Cambridge]] Electricity Policy Research Group| last = Noël | first = Pierre| page = 2; 38| journal = EPRG Working Paper |date=May 2009| accessdate=30 January 2010| id = EPRG0916}}</ref>

Germany's development policy functions as a distinct sector within its foreign policy framework. It is formulated by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and carried out by the implementing organisations. The German government sees development policy as a joint responsibility of the international community.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bmz.de/en/index.html |title=Aims of German development policy |date=10 April 2008 |publisher=Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310120541/http://www.bmz.de/en/index.html |archivedate=10 March 2011 }}</ref> It was the world's [[List of development aid sovereign state donors|second-biggest aid donor]] in 2019 after the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.devex.com/news/germany-foreign-aid-and-the-elusive-0-7-95389|website=Devex|title=Germany, foreign aid, and the elusive 0.7%|last=Green|first=Andrew|date=8 August 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808125018/https://www.devex.com/news/germany-foreign-aid-and-the-elusive-0-7-95389|archivedate=8 August 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>