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To: Road Walker who wrote (360688)	12/1/2007 6:49:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575615

There are plenty of reasons for it to be slower, and also plenty of reasons for it to be faster. Many of those on both sides of the issue would have greatly reduced impact after 17 years, unless Germany messed up the transition. Now Germany did indeed mess it up in some ways, but to the extent Germany messed up that's hardly reasons to give Germany a pass, or say its economic issues are somehow less real. And even assuming that the net effect was a large decrease in economic growth that lasted for many years and continues until today, that only provides a reason for Germany's slower growth, and to a lesser extent for the slower growth in Europe as a whole. It doesn't mean that the growth was not indeed slower.