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Article: East-West gap widens in Germany Election year alarm bell for SchroederIHT Insight
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- April 26, 2002
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's sharp setback in a regional election
in Eastern Germany last weekend reflects a deep-rooted problem that
is causing increasing worry here: Germany's East-West economic divide,
which initially narrowed following reunification, has steadily widened
since the mid-1990s. Despite a massive campaign to integrate the
fifth of the country that was once under Communist rule, at a cost
so far of well over Û800 billion ($718 billion) in taxpayer subsidies,
the East has slipped into a downward spiral of diminishing jobs,
ever slower growth and a mass exodus of the best and brightest young
people to the West. At the same time, the malaise in the ...
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