GERMAN PUBLIC FINANCES AT THE END OF THE 20TH AND BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY AND THE FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF UNIFICATION
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47390/SPR1342V5SI10Y2025N03Keywords:
Transformation, western and eastern lands, industrial sector, financial problem, German financial policy, financial consequences.Abstract
The article analyzes the financial processes that took place after the reunification of Germany and the issues that were given attention in this process. At the same time, the author has thoroughly studied how the negative and positive aspects of the reunification of the two German states into a single state took place on the basis of financial processes.
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