The suspicion in Nicosia is that it is precisely what countries like Germany want.
We invented solar technology, but we've fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it.
Most of all, look at who forms the consensus in countries like Germany, France and Spain.
Like Germany and Denmark, Iceland has rigid limitations about how a baby can be named.
It was hoped that Britain would become rather like Germany, but with better restaurants.
Borrowing costs for weaker nations would come down because their debt would have countries like Germany behind it.
This model of social capitalism works in places like Germany, Sweden, Australia and Singapore on various levels.
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But competing on price with countries like China and on engineering with countries like Germany is not easy.
Mr Dolan, 27, who was mentored by Stuart O'Connor, will compete against acts like Germany's dance group Cascada.
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Continental European countries like Germany impose a legal duty on citizens to register their residence with the local authority.
Like Germany's reforms, the plans fall short of what is needed to avoid further wrenching changes down the road.
The question for the global economy is whether China will become more like Germany, or Germany more like China.
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Countries like Germany, France, and England periodically undertake painful socioeconomic reforms in order to adapt to changing international markets.
Critics accuse the ECB of failing to provide the sort of short-term stimulus that countries like Germany desperately need.
But other countries like Germany will have to help them in that process.
If debtor countries like Greece or Spain default, that just means they are richer and creditors like Germany are poorer.
Instead, they are intended to improve the public finances of the "peripheral" members by ensuring that they behave more like Germany.
This pipeline carries 40 percent of Russia's oil exports, and much of that oil supplies European nations like Germany and Poland.
The evidence from countries like Germany and Denmark, where wind power has been tried on a larger scale, is not encouraging.
On the LED chip-supply side there's also Seoul Semiconductor, and there are LED semiconductor tool makers, like Germany's Aixtron and Emcore Corp.
France was neither a big supplier of international credit, like Germany or Japan, nor reliant on borrowing, like Spain, Britain or America.
Granted, other countries like Germany and Switzerland have roughly the same sort of system in place, and both systems work just fine.
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Volume growth was also seen in European markets like Germany and France.
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Italy plans a three-year wage freeze and, like Germany and Greece, will replace only a fraction of retiring workers with new hires.
The difference is partly thanks to lower inflation on the Continent and a higher number of hard discounters like Germany's Aldi and Lidl.
The proposals are expected to face stiff opposition from countries like Germany and Austria, where the revenue from tobacco advertising is worth millions.
Sure developed markets like Germany have enjoyed a GDP boom this year, even beating at least one BRIC, Russia, in the first quarter.
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It had fewer internationally known writers and intellectuals than countries like Germany, France and Britain, and its scientific institutions were falling behind the rest of Europe.
In the next two months Serbia will have to convince sceptics like Germany that it is committed to a lasting settlement with Kosovo.
The dramatic increases in export ratios seen in countries like Germany or China during the last boom will not be replicated in this recovery.
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