"In general, the eastern regions are aging faster than western Germany, " says Mr. Wilkoszewski.
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In 2009 the number of people of working age in western Germany shrank for the first time.
In eastern Germany, non-believers account for about 33% - far higher than the 6% figure for western Germany.
In western Germany alone since 1945, some 106, 000 people have been investigated and 6, 500 convicted for Nazi crimes.
Western Germany has been no star either, and several reforms have been introduced to sharpen up the economy.
The recovery is incomplete: Duisburg's unemployment rate is 13.3%, double western Germany's average.
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The battered infrastructure and pot-holed roads were a defiant counter-point to the blatant and often stifling affluence of western Germany.
But a priest from Mannheim in south-western Germany, Father Lukas Glocker, said the tax was used to do essential good works.
In western Germany, seeing peers' incomes rising actually makes young people happier (even more than a rise in their own incomes, remarkably).
Wages and pensions are still much lower than those in western Germany.
On July 24th, 1948, the Soviets closed the rail and road links between western Germany and west Berlin, located deep within the Soviet zone.
On Saturday, vandals in the Bergerhausen area of Essen, in western Germany, threw eggs at several houses which are blurred out in Street View.
The daughter of a Protestant pastor who migrated east, she leads a party whose core is Catholic and whose roots are in western Germany.
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On Aug. 4 they filed a 44-page complaint with the Civil Chamber of the lower court of Dusseldorf, a wealthy city in western Germany.
Parity with western Germany is the wrong benchmark, argues Mr Blum.
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He is due a day later at a NATO summit split between Strasbourg and Kehl, a town in south-western Germany, that will mark the alliance's 60th anniversary.
Recent surveys suggest that only half of all companies in western Germany and only a quarter of those in the east are now bound by industry-wide settlements.
An example is the Exzenterhaus in Bochum, in western Germany.
Like much of Western Europe, Germany faces a large rise in the proportion of old people in its population.
The Czech Republic consists of the ancient provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, with a mountainous rim on its western border with Germany.
Also, America intervened in two world wars when our vital interests were at stake -- stopping Germany from conquering Western Europe in 1917 and stopping Japan and Germany from conquering the world in 1941.
Like its Western European neighbors, Germany faces significant demographic challenges to sustained long-term growth.
Much of this technology and services expertise comes from western companies, particularly Germany.
In 1982, Spain became NATO's 16th member, the first country to enter the Western alliance since West Germany in 1955.
Several other western governments, notably Germany's, sympathise with this approach.
Sales in North America and Asia-Pacific rose 26.2% and 23.3% respectively, helping to offset a 6.5% drop in sales in Western Europe, excluding Germany where sales were up 1.9%.
Nobody knows quite how many ambitious, talented Russians have left for happier shores, but at least a million are reckoned to have gone to Israel, a similar number to Western Europe, mostly Germany, and a slightly smaller contingent to North America.
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Yes, fascism and Nazism came from two of the most advanced and most cultured Western societies, Italy and Germany.
Western governments, particularly that of Germany, knowingly politicized financial relations with the former Soviet Union.
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