Perhaps this also explains why Germany, despite its catastrophic birth rate, has so much trouble with immigration, and yet vastly outpaces France with its technical and industrial capabilities.

也许这也同样解释了为什么德国面对灾难性的生育率，仍然如此排斥移民，而它在技术和工业能力上又远远超过了法国。

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A study by the Federal Employment Agency in Germany concluded that Kurzarbeit explains only a quarter of the reduction in the average work week.

德国联邦就业局的一项调查显示，平均工作周下降的工时中，“缩短工时”只贡献了其中四分之一。

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This spreading fear within the eurozone explains the sharp leap in the additional borrowing costs France has to pay over Germany.

正是由于欧元区内部的这种恐惧蔓延，法国相对于德国的收益率息差大幅飙升。

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Suny explains that during the First World War, the Ottoman Empire sided with Germany and was thus at war with Russia and most of Europe.

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This factor also partly explains Germany's impatience with Italy.

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It explains Germany's insistence on government spending cuts for all - including itself - even though Keynesian economists say this is a sure-fire way of pushing the entire eurozone economy into a dangerous downward spiral.

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That, in large part, explains why Germany is now growing so much faster than the UK, after a similarly deep recession.

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