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GERMANY
More than a decade on from the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Germany has yet to come up with the economic key to coping with its aftermath.
Once regarded as the economic giant of Europe, the German economy has fared much less well in the new millennium. Unemployment is high and growth is low.
The economy in the east remains particularly weak. Unemployment is double and economic output per head not much more than half of that in the west. The population is declining too as young people vote with their feet. Their talents go west with them.
- Capital City: Berlin
- Population: 82.5 million (UN, 2003)
- Major language: German
- Life expectancy: 75 years (men), 81 years (women) (UN)
- Major religion: Christianity
- Monetary unit: 1 Euro = 100 cents
- Main exports: Motor vehicles, electrical machinery, metals
- Internet domain: .de
- Average annual income: US $23,560 (World Bank, 2001)
- International dialling code: +49
Although there are several national newspapers, the press market is strongest at a regional level.
THE MEDIA
- The press
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Sueddeutsche Zeitung
- Die Welt
- Der Spiegel
- Die Zeit
- Television
- ARD - organisation of regional public broadcasters, operates main national public TV channel
- ZDF - operates second national public TV channel
- n-tv - commercial, rolling-news, part-owned by CNN
- N24 - commercial, rolling news
- RTL - major commercial broadcaster, operates entertainment channels
- Deutsche Welle TV - Germany's international TV service, in German, English, Spanish
- Radio
- ARD - umbrella organisation of public radio services, including those of individual regions
- DeutschlandRadio - operates national public stations DeutschlandRadio Berlin and Deutschlandfunk, both broadcasting news and current affairs and cultural programmes
- Deutsche Welle - international radio broadcaster, services in many languages
- News agency/internet
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