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Germany
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for car hire for Germany as easier as possible. There
are a number of car rental suppliers around the Germany
area and we search the best ones for convenience,
price and quality.
We search companies including Advantage, Alamo, Enterprise,
Dollar, Sixt, Eurocar, Budget, Thrifty, National and
many more looking for the best deal for you for when
you arrive in Germany. Choose Car Rental options on
size and manufacturer and pay in your own currency.
So whether you’re visiting Germany for business or
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As
Europe's largest economy and second most populous nation,
Germany is 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.
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The German economy - the fifth largest
economy in the world in PPP terms and Europe's largest
- began to contract in the second quarter of 2008 as
the strong euro, high oil prices, tighter credit markets,
and slowing growth abroad took their toll on Germany's
export-dependent economy. At 1.7% in 2008, GDP growth
is expected to be negative in 2009. Recent stimulus
and lender relief efforts will make demands on Germany's
federal budget and undercut plans to balance its budget
by 2011. Strong growth in 2007 led unemployment in 2008
to fall below 8%, a new post-reunification low. This
suggested the reforms launched by the former government
of Chancellor Gerhard SCHOEDER, deemed necessary due
to chronically high unemployment and low average growth,
had had the desired effect. The current government of
Chancellor Angela MERKEL has initiated other reform
measures, such as a gradual increase in the mandatory
retirement age from 65 to 67 and measures to increase
female participation in the labor market. Germany's
aging population, combined with high chronic unemployment,
has pushed social security outlays to a level exceeding
contributions, but higher government revenues from the
cyclical upturn in 2006-07 and a 3% rise in the value-added
tax cut Germany's budget deficit to within the EU's
3% debt limit. The modernization and integration of
the eastern German economy - where unemployment exceeds
30% in some municipalities - continues to be a costly
long-term process, however, with annual transfers from
west to east amounting to roughly $80 billion. While
corporate restructuring and growing capital markets
have set strong foundations to help Germany meet the
longer-term challenges of European economic integration
and globalization, Germany's export-oriented economy
has proved a disadvantage in the context of weak global
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