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Politics

Taking Stock - Subsidizing eastern Germany

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November 3, 2015

German reunification was meant to bring new prosperity to eastern Germany. To help it catch up to the west economically, after reunification, billions in subsidies flowed eastwards, also to Saxony-Anhalt. What have they caused?