Much of this technology and services expertise comes from western companies, particularly Germany.
Some countries (particularly Germany) appear to receive a pretty steep volume discount while others (such as Poland) get none at all.
Contrarian-minded investors should find special appeal in Europe, particularly Germany.
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Two: Europe (particularly Germany) is deeply ambivalent about it.
Second, a movement from the highly subsidized locations in Europe (particularly Germany and Spain) to very sunny areas such as the Southwestern US, Western China, and the high desert of Chile and Peru.
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Spurred by rising fiscal deficits, the United States and other members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), particularly Germany and France, have been using a variety of methods to clamp down on tax cheats, tax havens and overseas financial centers.
In practice this never happened, particularly as Germany and France both fell foul of the rule.
The problem is that public opinion - particularly in Germany - has hardened against further aid for Greece or elsewhere.
But it will certainly slow corporate restructuring across Europe, particularly in Germany.
Indeed, some of the most stubborn resistance to deficit financing has come from Europe, particularly from Germany and the EU finance ministers.
Opponents, particularly in Germany, argued that there could be no level playing-field for takeovers so long as golden shares were still legal.
And yet mainstream opinion in Warsaw is in no doubt that the nation's destiny is tied to the euro, and particularly to Germany.
The intervention in Libya therefore is a way to reassert to Europe, but particularly to Germany, that France still leads the Continent on foreign and military affairs.
That is because it is widely felt, particularly in Germany, that a first batch of new members that excluded the biggest candidate, Poland, would not be worth having.
It is believed that eurozone leaders, particularly in Germany, insisted on the levy because of the large amount of Russian capital kept in Cypriot banks, amid fears of money-laundering.
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Reports have suggested that eurozone leaders, particularly in Germany, insisted on the levy because of the large amount of Russian capital kept in Cypriot banks, amid fears of money-laundering.
Their argument and, until recently, the conventional wisdom was that a restructuring would lead to significant losses for international banks - particularly in Germany and France - and that instability would flow through the entire European banking system.
So far many across Europe, particularly officials in Germany, have resisted calls for such measures.
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Western governments, particularly that of Germany, knowingly politicized financial relations with the former Soviet Union.
There has been some support for the idea from governments, particularly France and Germany.
However, a number of policymakers, particularly those in Germany, have resisted the idea.
The debate is particularly intense in Germany, the eurozone's main paymaster, where allies of Angela Merkel have openly called for Greece to go.
That is particularly true of Germany, whose exporters have seen their currency appreciate to a three year high versus that of their Japanese competitors, EPFR said in a press release today.
The Nazis rose to power on the heels of the much worse economic duress and massive unemployment in the 1930s, a global Depression that hit Germany particularly hard and one that worldwide austerity measures are now widely believed to have caused.
Nor will France and Germany be particularly thrilled with the fudge on bankers' pay.
This is a particularly strong argument in Germany as the country starts to phase in partial pension funding.
The U.S. success has set off shale gas explorations worldwide, and promising sites have been uncovered in Europe, particularly in France, Germany, Poland, and Ireland.
Although non-life insurers are taking steps to improve their balance sheets, the prospect for life insurers doing the same is gloomy, particularly in Britain and Germany.
Even at the time of the licence auctions, some observers were worried that, by extracting the highest prices, governments, particularly in Britain and Germany, would leave the companies without the funds needed to build the business.
Germany is doing particularly well, thanks to a restructuring of its labour markets that has improved competitiveness.
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