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	Germany - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Germany's social welfare system has deep roots to the early industrialization, to the strong bonds between individual and state/society that followed Reformation and later signified the Prussian revival after the 30 Years War and remain one of the aspects of the German society most Germans are the most proud of.
		Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south to the shores of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea in the north.
		Germany is today often regarded as an open and tolerant country, although conservative politicians have voiced strong criticism against the Islamic minority after the murder of the Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, and said the multi-cultural idea have failed.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Germany (3851 words)

	Historical Eastern Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Historic Eastern Germany or Ex-German Eastern Territories are terms which can be used to describe collectively those provinces or regions east of the Oder–Neisse line which were under the administration of a unified German state from 1871 until 1945 and were recognised as part of Germany by the majority of the international community.
		The eastern expansion of the European Union (EU) means that, within a few years, any German who wishes to live east of the Oder–Neisse rivers inside the EU will have the legal right to do so, although they will have to pay market prices to rent or purchase property.
		It regulated the issue of the eastern German border, which was to be the Oder–Neisse line, but the final article of the memorandum said that the final regulations concerning Germany were subject to a separate peace treaty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Historical_Eastern_Germany (1213 words)

	East Germany - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist Party-led state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany.
		Thus, on October 3 1990 the East German population was the first from the Eastern Bloc to join the European Union as a part of the reunified Federal Republic of Germany.
		It was created in 1946 through the merger of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in the Soviet controlled zone, although the SPD remained a separate party in East Berlin until 1961.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /east_germany.htm (1688 words)

	Profile of Germany
		These have been brought about by the reunification of western and eastern Germany and the centrality of the country in the new European Monetary Union, or ‘Euro Zone' while nationally reflecting the economic recession that has plagued the country for most of the 1990s.
		By 1998, Unified Germany had invested some US$56.2 billion in either modernization or construction in the east, but forty-five years of concerted repair and development in the western half of Germany have not been duplicated in the eastern half in only nine.
		Residential real estate practitioners in Germany face a marketplace with a low percentage of buyers in comparison to the country's wealth, and even within the band of existing transactions, direct sales without the use of a practitioner are the most prevalent practice.
	www.realtor.org /intlprof.nsf/All/Germany?OpenDocument (3747 words)

	Germany (09/05)
		Eastern economic growth rates have been lower than in the west in recent years, unemployment is twice as high, prompting many skilled easterners to seek work in the west, and productivity continues to lag.
		Germany continues to be active economically in the states of central and eastern Europe and to actively support the development of democratic institutions, bilaterally and through the EU.
		Germany stands at the center of European affairs and is a key partner in U.S. relations with Europeans in NATO and the European Union.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3997.htm (5913 words)

	Eastern Germany's EU Funds in Danger of Drying Up \| Germany \| Deutsche Welle \| 24.05.2004
		Eastern Germany had been completely deindustrialized after the collapse of the GDR, and rebuilding the region is far from over, he added.
		Eastern Germany has gone from the outer edges to the very center of the EU -- a development that would soon manifest itself in further growth and development, he said.
		Germany's attempt to rebuild its once communist East has been an unmitigated disaster and the massive financial transfers from the West endanger the entire nation's economy, according to a government-commissioned report.
	www.dw-world.de /english/0,3367,1432_A_1213203_1_A,00.html (635 words)

	InternationalReports.net : Eastern Germany
		At the same time, eastern Germans have grown to resent the "know it all" attitudes of newly arrived westerners and they are not happy with the lack of progress either.
		The situation on the eastern German job market has improved somewhat, but the level of unemployment is more than twice as high as it is in the western states.
		Gross income per member of the workforce in eastern Germany rose from 49 percent of the western level in 1991 to 77 percent in 2000.
	www.internationalreports.net /europe/easterngermany/2001/ministerfor.html (1520 words)

	Analysis: Will Gamble on Eastern Germany Pay Off?
		And to the government's chagrin, former Eastern bloc countries like Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, which received a fraction of eastern Germany's external aid, are growing faster and attracting a lot of unsubsidized investment from Germany's biggest companies.
		Eastern Germany's telephone network, built from scratch by Deutsche Telekom, is more advanced than that of the United States.
		Volkswagen wants a factory in eastern Germany, but it almost canceled the project because the European Commission in Brussels, which must rule on subsidies that might give an unfair advantage to a business within the European Union, objected that $90 million in subsidies was improper.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/041798eastgermany-econ.html (4051 words)

	Paving the Way to Free Enterprise in Eastern Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the newly unified Germany, the Treuhandanstalt (or Trust Institution) has taken on the tremendous task of leading the former East Germany from a centrally planned economy to free enterprise.
		Germany has decided on a centralized form of privatization, in which a central organization decides which company is to be sold to which investor.
		This rapid rise in eastern wages is not sustainable, for two basic reasons: (1) German labor costs are the highest in the world, making it difficult for labor-intensive manufacturing industries to compete; and (2) productivity in eastern Germany is well below the standards of industrialized countries.
	www.cipe.org /publications/fs/ert/e08/8treuha.htm (3223 words)

	Ethnologue report for Germany
		Not intelligible to Eastern Frisian of Germany or Western Frisian of the Netherlands except to a few educated bilingual speakers of West Frisian.
		Eastern Germany, southeast, Sachsen with Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz, Halle in Sachsen-Anhalt.
		Southwestern dialect in southern Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace (France), Midwestern dialect in central Germany and parts of the former Czechoslovakia, Northwestern dialect is northern Germany and the Netherlands.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Germany (1147 words)

	AgExporter: Changes in eastern Germany holds keys for marketing strategies
		Eastern Germany must adapt from a socialistic, centrally planned economy to a free market.
		Because of many Western products on the market, eastern German producers are losing their domestic sales channels and also are facing the loss of markets in other EC countries, which already face overproduction in grains, milk and meat.
		One week after the currency union took effect, a survey showed that 85 percent of eastern Germans expected to be cautious in spending their money, at least for the first year.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3723/is_n6_v3/ai_10850623 (1371 words)

	Productivity Lag In Eastern Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Following the reunification of Germany in 1990, officials pushed for rapid wage parity between the two regions.
		Wage and salary payments for workers in the eastern regions rose from 48 percent of those in the west in 1991 to 77 percent by 1997.
		Unemployment benefits and transfers of other public funds to people in the eastern regions amounted to 67 percent of the east's GDP in 1991 and had only fallen to 43 percent of GDP by 1997.
	www.ncpa.org /pi/internat/pdinter/june98g.html (310 words)

	Analysis: Will Gamble on Eastern Germany Pay Off (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		LEIPZIG, Germany -- For a rough idea of what has happened in the former East Germany, imagine someone wrote a check worth $1 trillion to a state with an economy the size of North Carolina's.
		Loaded with $300 billion in debt related to eastern Germany, the country is in danger of not being able to meet the fiscal requirements to qualify for the Euro, the single European currency planned for 1999.
		West Germany's powerful labor unions added to the pressure, pushing hard to extend the terms for all western contracts into the eastern states in part to avoid hearing an immediate Ross Perot-style sucking sound of jobs moving from west to east.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/eastgerm.htm (4022 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Germany's affluent and technologically powerful economy - the fifth largest in the world - has become one of the slowest growing economies in the euro zone.
		The modernization and integration of the eastern German economy continues to be a costly long-term process, with annual transfers from west to east amounting to roughly $70 billion.
		Germany's aging population, combined with high unemployment, has pushed social security outlays to a level exceeding contributions from workers.
	www.odci.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/gm.html (1411 words)

	In Eastern Germany, Tide Has Yet to Turn
		The project also promised to bring at least 600 new jobs to this area, which is still waiting for the prosperity and equality it was promised after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain 16 years ago.
		With Germany saddled with a large budget deficit and high unemployment, opinion surveys show voters are widely skeptical of lawmakers' ability to repair the country's internal divisions.
		A poll of 1,500 people in eastern Germany conducted for Der Spiegel magazine last month found that 44 percent said they had no faith in any political party to solve economic problems in that part of the country.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/31/AR2005083102348_pf.html (1389 words)

	iic: iic home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is undeniable that Germany has the triple advantage of economic and political stability, a quality business environment and a geographical position that places it in a privileged position in an enlarged Europe.
		Germany thus offers international investors a significant market, a level of infrastructure and a traditional emphasis on quality.
		The IIC is an investment development agency with the mandate to support international firms in establishing and growing their business in eastern Germany.
	www.iic.de /index/index.php3 (117 words)

	Eastern Germany (former Deutschland-DDR) - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Eastern Germany always was the main socialist country in Europe after USSR.
		In the early 90’s when I compared the situation in East Germany and Czechia first, I had the impression, that the old DDR was far more devastated than Czechia.
		The Western solidarity with the Eastern victims of the recent floods was absolutly overwhelming.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=40732 (1912 words)

	Germany on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Located in the center of Europe, it borders the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France on the west; Switzerland and Austria on the south; the Czech Republic and Poland on the east; Denmark on the north; and the Baltic Sea on the northeast.
		The official capital and largest city is Berlin, but many administrative functions are still carried on in Bonn, the former capital of West Germany.
		With Germany leading the way, governments are taking a hard look at packaging waste - and making manufacturers bear the cost.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Germany.asp (468 words)

	MASSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL 'CLEAN-UP' REQUIRED IN EASTERN GERMANY Magazine: Business America, July 26, 1993 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With the opening up of eastern Germany after unification came the discovery that the severity and scope of pollution there was beyond most expectations.
		One of the most immediate spending priorities in the rebuilding of eastern Germany is the water/wastewater treatment infrastructure.
		The clean-up of eastern Germany is being watched in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
	mgv.mim.edu.my /Articles/00090/9601492.Htm (1198 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Eastern Germany, 1945-1949
		Stalin eyed at German reparations, which it should be obliged to pay in an eventual peace treaty, and, in the meantime, ordered entire factories and railroad lines in Germany to be dismantled, shipped to the USSR and reassembled (Demontage).
		In Soviet Occupied Germany, political parties were founded - the Christian Democrats (CDU), Liberals (LDP), the Social Democrats (SPD) and, in a privileged position, the Communists (KPD).
		Banks had been nationalized in 1945; in 1946 the confiscation of property of Nazi war criminals was decided; the latter, approved by plebiscite, was used to nationalize enterprises of the heavy industry.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/ger4548east.html (769 words)

	Jobs, Hope Abandon Eastern Germany (washingtonpost.com)
		An article about eastern Germany in Oct. 24 editions stated that Salvador Allende, the former president of Chile, was assassinated.
		TEMPLIN, Germany -- An autumn wind is knifing through the cobbled alleyways of this picture-postcard town, and so Christiane Nimes pulls her blue denim jacket a little tighter around her shoulders.
		Never mind, critics note, that the health care was of low quality, that the apartments had leaky roofs, paper-thin walls, cracked windows and broken furnaces, or that full employment was achieved through rampant featherbedding.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A57463-2004Oct23.html (906 words)

	EASTERN-CENTRAL EUROPE: The Multicultural Arena
		Relics from one of the longest dictatorships in Eastern Europe rub shoulders with citrus orchards, olive groves and vineyards.
		Certainly, in East Germany, none of this happened because the Communists in East Germany said we were Communists, therefore, we were the good Germans; we were the victims.
		The eastern economy has, however, rebounded, and the economic disparities between the two halves of the country are narrowing.
	www.omnibusol.com /easteurope.html (13725 words)

	Germany Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
		Germania [Ancient Germany] (843K) From A Classical Atlas of Ancient Geography by Alexander G. Findlay.
		Germany, Eastern - Land Use from the CIA Atlas of Eastern Europe 1990 (125K)
		Germany, Eastern - Population Density from the CIA Atlas of Eastern Europe 1990 (115K)
	www.lib.utexas.edu /maps/germany.html (280 words)

	InternationalReports.net : Eastern Germany
		One of Germany’s most beautiful Renaissance buildings is the Old Town Hall, which is today used as a Museum of City History.
		The birthplace of Wagner is becoming a leading center of Eastern Germany for commerce, technology, research, media and high art.
		American visitors, investors, and others who come to Germany would do well to include this fascinating place on their next trip to this part of Europe.
	www.internationalreports.net /europe/easterngermany/2001/leipzigcultural.html (984 words)

	CNN.com - Dresden in line of flood wave - August 15, 2002
		DRESDEN, Germany -- German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has promised $100 million in aid to flood-stricken parts of the country as regions face their worst weather conditions on record.
		The eastern part of the German state of Saxony is worst hit, where at least nine lives have been lost, and famous buildings in the historic town of Dresden are under threat.
		The 100 million euros ($99 million) pledged by the Cabinet is a third of the 300 million euros needed to clean up after the river Oder flooded on Germany's eastern border in 1997.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/08/15/floods.dresden (696 words)

	BIBB / Public promotion of training in Eastern Germany under scrutiny
		If forecasts on trends in secondary school graduates in eastern Germany are accurate, there will be a high demand for training positions up until the middle of the decade.
		Different studies evaluating promotional training programmes in eastern Germany have improved the transparency overall in the last few years while shedding light on the quality and efficacy as well as deficits and unintended effects of individual promotional programmes.
		At the heart of the colloquium was first of all activities relating to the promotion of training in the new German Länder and current results of evaluations of their effectiveness.
	www.bibb.de /en/5092.htm (729 words)

	Germany in CIA World Factbook
		Five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, progress towards economic integration between eastern and western Germany is clearly visible, yet the eastern region almost certainly will remain dependent on subsidies funded by western Germany until well into the next century.
		Eastern Germany's economy is changing from one anchored on manufacturing to a more service-oriented economy.
		Western Germany, with three times the per capita output of the eastern states, has an advanced market economy and is a world leader in exports.
	userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de /adressen/brd-fact.html (1307 words)

	German Unification Convergence rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Three years after monetary union, political debate in Germany centres on how long the Eastern Länder will take to converge to Western productivity and living standards.
		Eastern labour productivity has risen spectacularly since early 1991; it also varies substantially across sectors and should therefore rise further with structural change.
		This is difficult to rationalize in the Solow framework, but the massive investment rates in Eastern Germany recently as high as 45% of GDP for total and 25% for business equipment investment should have substantial effects.
	www.cepr.org /pubs/bulletin/dps/dp863.htm (298 words)

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