"It is not going to make things easy for us." That might best sum up the German reaction to David Cameron's re-election in the United Kingdom. Berlin had been counting on a neck-and-neck race between the Tories and Labour, preferably with the very pro-European LibDems as arbiters. Now Chancellor Angela Merkel has to deal with a stronger Cameron, more determined than ever to defend British interests against Europe, and possibly also against Germany.
Berlin's predicament is such that there has…