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Originally Posted by baddog
My friends are west German; the impression I got was the influx of Eastern Europeans in general had caused an unemployment issue that had never existed before. I think going to the Euro instead of the Deutsche Mark kind of stung a little as well.
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your friends probably read too much BILD Zeitung, the printed equivalent of Fox News
like i said, unemployment rate is the lowest since 1990 and besides a small minority (mostly right wing/close to neo nazis), most people get along fine with the Euro by now
but germans generally like to complain about everything, doesn't mean it's true