German reunification has cost the former West Germany about 5% of GDP a year, with no end in sight.
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The allied powers agreed that reparations should be reconsidered upon German reunification - but when that came in 1990, Berlin argued the issue had passed.
The Germans see a lesson in what happened after German reunification.
From murals that depict the trials of German reunification to paste-ups that comment on current events, the city's graffiti is a record of its history and its people.
Another worrisome example of the extent to which President Bush has been prepared to go to accommodate Gorbachev can be seen in the summit conversations about German reunification.
For over a decade after German reunification had boosted that country's population well beyond France's, the French continued to insist that the two should retain precisely equal voting weights.
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The Bush Administration should continue to affirm and welcome the promise of German reunification in freedom while adopting a far more vigilant attitude toward the challenges inherent in this development.
Charles Stirnweiss, the mayor of Forbach, argues that with the flush of German reunification fading, more German investors seeking lower costs are coming to Lorraine, seeing it almost as a single cross-frontier region with the Saarland.
Tough as German reunification has been, it will look like a walk in the park compared with the task of trying to suture one of the world's most backward economies onto one of the world's most advanced.
Among other things, this was accomplished through the device of allowing their credits to be used to "purchase" narrow national objectives such as German reunification, the removal of Soviet troops and preferential treatment in cleaning up large payment arrearages to German firms.
The Center believes that if the Bush Administration were to adopt such an approach -- and to encourage similar action on the part of its allies -- it could do much to reduce the danger that the significant risks rather than the promising opportunities will realized in the aftermath of German reunification.
The most exciting German dance artist to emerge from the post-reunification years is sure to keep Berlin in the choreographic frontline.
One of West Germany's first orders of business after reunification was to shut down four East German reactors of this basic type.
First, concerning the "German Question, " it is becoming increasingly clear that the decision concerning reunification is already out of the hands of Western and Eastern governments.
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She has also been encouraging the development of the German real estate market, which suffered from a construction overhang post-reunification but is now seeing interest from hedge funds.
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