Being the second and third largest economies in the eu, yes and no. The biggest control from germany comes from the 2008 eu crisis that spun off from the 2007 housing crisis in america. many of their economies were failing due to high social spending combined with massive drops in tax revenue, and austerity measures.
Germany being one of the few who did good and being the largest power, now holds the debts of many of these failing countries, which is often why germany gets it's way with the eu.
The other issue is currency, pre euro germany made high quality products but had an expensive currency, france had a much weaker currency but made cheaper products. The switching to the euro benefits germany greatly while hurting other countries. germany and france now have the same currency, and same exchange rate but germany makes higher quality products off the same currency and similiar wages.
This entire setup pretty much funnels manufacturing to germany, and eliminates offsets countries like france had, where they may make a lower quality product, but also cheaper, now the low quality products cost the same through a unified currency, benefitting germany.
