Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall statistics show what once was Communist East Germany is still lagging mightily behind the West.
127502
East Germany still lagging behind West
41314
Folklore is missing German perspective
122431
Deutsche Telekom spied for years
155084
Private consumption helps Germany to meagre growth in first-quarter
105014
Germany's industrial output falls
3935
'Situation in Europe has significantly worsened'
89488
Gridlock is problem in politics, economy
66894
Germany is in recession due to global economic crisis :
152071
Major averages lingering firmly in negative territory
124757
Germany and France emerge from recession
133769
Selective closure of borders weaken national unity
29821
Economic conditions improved in EU states outside of the euro zone, but vulnerabilities broadly persist
11240
Zim revolution squandered in 1997
19515
Growth in German spending slows
28431
Country to progress with continuity in policies:
128460
Europe's workers pushing back
108471
Turkey, Romania are among the countries most vulnerable to slowing investment