Jobs, Hope Abandon Eastern Germany: Fifteen Years After the Fall of...
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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.
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BERLIN Sept. 19, 2004 - Voters in two east German states angry over high unemployment handed a rebuke Sunday to Germany&#39;s two biggest parties, giving big gains to far right and former Communist groups, television projections showed.
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WARSAW (Der Spiegel) -- Young Polish workers have flocked in the hundreds of thousands to the UK, Ireland and Sweden to find work since Poland's EU entry in 2004. Now Poland is faced with a serious lack of skilled workers and Warsaw wants to entice them back home. One of Poland's biggest exports since joining the European Union has been its own people. But now Warsaw has decided the brain drain needs to be reversed and the government has launched a campaign to entice the migrants to come back home. Get the whole story here
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There&#39;s plenty to blame for the rise of extremists in Germany: Ex-communists, unemployment and social reforms all had their turn.
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Germans marked a subdued 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on yesterday, with high unemployment in the formerly communist east and a sense in people's hearts that the nation has not yet fully ...
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World War II is near its end. The Nazi empire is crumbling from its edges inward as Soviet and Allied forces advance.Comment
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economic troubles still plaguing reunited Germany on the 15th anniversary of the Berlin Wall&#39;s collapse. the Wall fell, also admitted in a public debate he had made errors that were contributing
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Voters in two states in what was East Germany are expressing their discontent with the dominant political parties in Germany by endorsing radical right-wing and former communist parties in state elections, exit ...
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Wall or no wall, eastern Germany's best and brightest still want to get out. Since 1991, the first full year of Germany unity, 2 million people have migrated to the economically sounder west of Germany and ...
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Papers around Europe recall the euphoria in Germany on 9 November 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell.
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East Germans gave a strong boost to far-right groups and the former communists in two state elections, punishing the countryâs biggest mainstream parties for the regionâs high unemployment and cuts in social programs.
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Germany is undergoing a surprisingly robust economic rebound while Angela Merkel's divided government is facing accusations of immobility. Is the recovery sustainable and are the country's leaders missing the golden opportunity afforded by the supportive environment to forge ahead with structural reforms?
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The move, after 15 years of negotiations, is a milestone for the former Soviet state that helps clear the way for an even more valuable free trade agreement with the European Union.
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Germany&#39;s economic woes deepened as General Motors Corp. and KarstadtQuelle AG announced plans to cut as many as 15,000 jobs in Europe&#39;s largest economy.
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After the dual destructions wrought by the Holocaust and communism, Eastern European Jewish communal life was little more than a memory 15 years ago.
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BusinessWeek Online - The jubilation that swept East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 long ago gave way to the sober reality of globalization and market forces. Now a decade of resentment seems to be boiling over. In Eastern cities such as Leipzig or Chemnitz, thousands have taken to the streets since July to protest cuts in unemployment benefits, the main source of livelihood for 1.6 million East Germans. Discontent among reunification's losers fueled big gains by the far left and far right in Brandenburg and Saxony state elections Sept. 19. ...
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Fifteen years after the reunification of Germany, how is the new cultural Berlin faring?