For the last five years the Dutch economy has grown faster than Britain, France, or Germany, with the unemployment rate having remained well below that of the other three countries.

过去五年，荷兰经济增长速度超过了英国、法国和德国，失业率一直低于其他三个国家。

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The first of these is that Italy is an export-led economy like Germany.

第一个是意大利像德国一样是出口导向型经济。

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But Germany can be Germany - an economy with fiscal discipline, feeble domestic demand and a huge export surplus - only because others are not.

但德国之所以是德国——一个财政自律、内需疲软、出口顺差巨大的经济体——只是因为其它国家不是德国。

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A new report this week from China showed that its economy became the world's 3rd largest in 2007, passing Germany.

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Europe's biggest economy,Germany, last week banned some speculative trading and has indicated it may do so in the longer term.

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