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Economic parity remains German dream

By Bertrand Benoit in Berlin

Published: November 2 2009 18:51 | Last updated: November 2 2009 18:51

Germany’s reunification was one of the world’s most daring multi-billion economic experiments. Yet 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question remains: did it work?

Although the peaceful revolution of 1989 saw much of eastern Europe embrace the market, the formidable task of grafting one of the Soviet bloc’s most regimented economies on to one of the west’s biggest, most successful open markets had no equivalent.

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