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To: elmatador who wrote (83002)	11/10/2011 11:05:55 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	1 Recommendation Respond to of 218019

Lots of views on that issue.. Some commentators were keen to point out that the west had reaped benefits as well as incurring costs. Bernd Ulrich, in Die Zeit, a highbrow weekly newspaper, identified several reasons for western gratitude. The stresses of unification helped Germany adapt to globalisation. The courage of easterners, who had “lost everything”, has been a corrective to western complacency and “arrogance”. Mr Ulrich is even grateful for the ex-communist Left Party, which, he says, takes up political space that might otherwise be occupied by the populist right. Welt am Sonntag, published by the conservative Springer group, pointed out that the economic costs to the west of unification have been lower than they appear. Migrants from eastern to western Germany boost western GDP and help foot the bill for unification; the east’s labour flexibility helped make western business more competitive. economist.com