Maintaining the attempt to keep these pieces upbeat for a full week, today we are happy to announce that the level of unemployment in Germany has fallen to its lowest level in the nation’s modern history.
At the end of the Second World War, Churchill described the ideological schism between eastern and western Europe as an Iron Curtain which had fallen across the continent, dividing the capitalist, democratic west from the communist countries of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations. It took almost fifty years before the curtain was finally lifted and a seminal act in this process was the fall o the Berlin wall and subsequent re-unification of Germany which had been splintered into East and West Germany in the embers of the war.
West Germany was the poster boy of post war success, but the same could not be said of East Germany which had fared badly under communism. W