Blossoming landscapes; Germany's depressed east.(Eastern Germany in search of recovery)

The Economist (US) | May 26, 2007 | Copyright

Is Germany's economic boom bypassing its eastern states?

"ONLY one person promised blossoming landscapes," says Peer Steinbruck. Looking proudly at Germany's booming economy, falling unemployment and bulging state coffers, the finance minister is trying to deflect objections that the five states of former East Germany have never enjoyed Helmut Kohl's 1990 pledge of economic nirvana. It takes a generation to help the new states to their feet, he says. Mr Steinbruck has no plan to change the "solidarity pact", under which western Germany will subsidise eastern Germany ...

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