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Germany
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| Short Information | Capital: Berlin
Language: German
Currency: Euro (EUR) | |
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 PRIVATE GUIDES OF Germany | | Insider Tour - Andrew Andrew - like Karl Marx, he_s the son of a minister and is given to philophising late into the long, long Berlin nights. He came to Germany 6 years ago to teach the former east Germans about Canada and used to live very close to a nuclear reactor of the Chernobyl type - if there's a certain glow about him its no wonder. |  See all private and personal guides of Germany |
| PRIVATE TOURS IN Germany | | The Original Insider Pub Crawl - Berlin is the nightlife capital of Europe. To visit and not go out on the town is not a real visit at all! Become a Berlin Insider for a night out!We take you on an Insider's evening out - skip the touristy. | | Behind the Iron Curtain Tour - The Berlin Wall along with the Great Wall of China was one of the longest structures ever built to keep people separate from one another. Yet today hardly anything exists of it or the country it once 'defended. | | The Famous Insider Tour - Take our ALL main sites tour and visit the war bunkers, Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie, the Wall and much much more. Stroll into the history of Imperial, Third Reich, Cold War and the new "Capital Republik" Berlin of today. | | Insiders Berlin by Bike - Insider Tour's Berlin by Bike is unrivalled! You'll simply see more, know more and its great fun! Glide along a scenic route through the Tiergarten Park and by the River Spree whilst we visit ALL the main sites and much much more. . | | See all private and personal tours in Germany |
| General details about Germany |  CAPITAL CITY OF Germany: Berlin
LANGUAGE OF Germany: German
CURRENCY OF Germany: Euro (EUR)
COMMENTS ABOUT Germany:
Germany is a country in Central Europe and a founding member of the European Union.
Cities : Berlin(capital), Hamburg, Munich (Munchen), Dusseldorf, Cologne (Koln), Frankfurt, Dresden
Best Places : Baltic Sea Coast (Ostseekuste), North Sea Coast (Nordseekuste),North Frisian Islands (Nordfriesische Inseln), Rugen,Lueneburg Heath (Luneburger Heide), Weserbergland, Harz, Spreewald, Ruhr area (Ruhrgebiet), Eifel (Eifel), Rhine Valley (MIttelrhein) between Bonn and Bingen, Upper Rhine Valley (Oberrheinische Tiefebene) between Bingen and Basel, Switzerland, Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge), Heidelberg, Black Forest (Schwarzwald), Lake Constance (Bodensee), Bavarian Alps (Bayrische Alpen) (Berchtesgaden, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavarian Forest (Bayerischer Wald) (Bodenmais, Arnbruck, Mittenwald, (Neuschwanstein castle), Bad Reichenhall
Calling Code : +49
Time Zone : UTC +1
As Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.
CLIMATE OF Germany: temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind
RELIGION OF Germany: Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Muslim 3.7%, unaffiliated or other 28.3%
POPULATION OF Germany: 82,424,609 (July 2004 est.)
ECONOMY OVERVIEW OF Germany: Germany's affluent and technologically powerful economy- the fifth largest national economy in the world - has become one of the slowest growing economies in the entire euro zone, and a quick turnaround is not in the offing in the foreseeable future. Growth in 2001-03 fell short of 1%. The modernization and integration of the eastern German economy continues to be a costly long-term process, with annual transfers from west to east amounting to roughly $70 billion. Germany's ageing population, combined with high unemployment, has pushed social security outlays to a level exceeding contributions from workers. Structural rigidities in the labor market - including strict regulations on laying off workers and the setting of wages on a national basis - have made unemployment a chronic problem. Corporate restructuring and growing capital markets are setting the foundations that could allow Germany to meet the long-term challenges of European economic integration and globalization, particularly if labor market rigidities are further addressed. The government is also starting long-needed structural reforms designed to revitalize the country's economy. In the short run, however, the fall in government revenues and the rise in expenditures have raised the deficit above the EU's 3% debt limit.
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