Published on November 13, 2024 at 10:33. / Modified on November 13, 2024 at 2:33 p.m.
A big blue wave, that of AfD voters on the far right, risks winning the next German early elections in the east of the country, marking the color of the next Bundestag. This wave would be driven by a gloomy economic climate in the regions of former communist Germany. As with the weather, there is a large margin between the perceived climate and actual temperatures.
One in five East Germans still think they live in a disadvantaged region. Just after the turn of the century, growth had, in fact, slowed down in the east, granting its inhabitants only 10 small additional percentage points of GDP in twenty years while the west was riding high on flourishing exports. .
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