Officials in eastern Germany complain that the Polish authorities did not provide them with adequate information.
Some of the clothes are manufactured at a corrections facility in Halle, near Leipzig, in Eastern Germany.
He has been promised a new super-ministry for overseeing economics, employment and the revamping of eastern Germany.
Indeed, the female employment rate in eastern Germany has dropped from 80% in 1990 to 73% today.
In eastern Germany, non-believers account for about 33% - far higher than the 6% figure for western Germany.
This has been happening in Ireland, Portugal and Spain over the past decade, but not in eastern Germany.
But the deal went sour once the extent of one partner's over-optimistic property lending in eastern Germany came out.
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The firm reckons that it supports 36, 000 jobs at suppliers in eastern Germany, some at factories next to the Zwickau plant.
The last time it managed it was with German unification in the 1990s when tax incentives promoted investment in eastern Germany.
Vattenfall, a Swedish nuclear utility, is investing in technology to remove carbon from its newish coal plants in eastern Germany and Poland.
The shutdown of inefficient and heavy-polluting factories in eastern Germany cut emissions.
Then came the push to eastern Germany and the capture of Berlin.
Eastern Germany may never overcome some of its disadvantages, such as its relative lack of big cities and the exodus of its elite.
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The two men, Uwe Mundlos, 38, and Uwe Boenhardt, 34, were found dead earlier this month in a caravan in Eisenach in eastern Germany.
Born in 1922 in an area of north-eastern Germany that is now part of Poland, Mr von Kleist came from a long line of Prussian landowners.
They also want wages in eastern Germany, currently only 86.5% of western levels despite a 90-minute-longer working week, brought into line with those in the west.
Poorer countries, by and large, ought to catch up with richer ones when they have (like eastern Germany) access to the same technology and markets as the leaders.
At that time Elf took over one of the biggest businesses in eastern Germany, the Leuna oil refinery and its network of petrol stations, as part of the wholesale privatisation of former East German state assets.
To raise funds for flood relief in eastern Germany, the old government had already decided to postpone income tax cuts due to start next January 1st by a year, and to impose a one-off levy on corporate profits.
Rumpled and down-to-earth, with a rolling Bavarian accent, he has irritated the right wing of Mr Kohl's ruling coalition for pressing it to go on transferring huge dollops of cash to eastern Germany, to carry out tax reform but without inflicting pain, and to stop industry fleeing abroad.
Mr Mayer thinks that the eastern part of Germany, where economic growth is even lower than in the west, is in a different kind of trap.
Extremists, we learn, are at present on the up in Austria, Belgium, Germany and Eastern Europe, though support is wavering in Britain, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and, to some extent, France.
Far-right groups from Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, Germany and Eastern Europe gathered last month in the Danish city of Aarhus for what they said was a rally to make their governments aware of the threat of Islamic extremism.
She repaired relations with Germany's eastern neighbours, reassured the United States and pandered less to Russia.
Helmut Kohl opened doors between Germany and its eastern neighbours - and their reaction to his departure has been mixed.
One German newspaper says Lipschis, who was born in what is now Lithuania in 1919, finished World War II fighting for Germany on the eastern front.
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Poland has replaced Russia as Germany's main eastern trading partner, even including energy.
"In general, the eastern regions are aging faster than western Germany, " says Mr. Wilkoszewski.
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On May 1st Germany must also open up to eastern construction firms and industrial-cleaning companies.
The Grynszpans were Ostjuden ("Eastern Jews"), having come to Germany in 1911 seeking opportunity and escape from the violent anti-Semitism of shtetl life.
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