I have partnered with a multi national German company for the last ten years, the ten years previously a french company. Both countries have their good and bad points, but business wise the Germans are far more difficult to work with, it became more of a dictatorship than a partnership in the end and one I'm now gladly out of. Germans are still hell bent on global domination and will buy any market rather than compete in one. I appreciate thats modern day capitalism but i would argue globalism, the greed and need for ultimate power at whatever cost is nothing short of ugly.