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The German unification that took place economically on July 1, 1990 and politically a few months later on October 3 creates a new Germany in the center of Europe. Integrating the former GDR with its 16.4 million inhabitants into the Federal Republic of Germany means not only a 26.7 % increase in its population, but also the movement of the EC border by some 200 miles eastwards — the (former) CMEA thereby losing a member country and the Federal Republic of Germany becoming the immediate neighbor of Poland. Germany faces the challenge of organizing the systemic transition to a market economy in the territory of the former GDR with its labor force of 8.5 million, about a quarter of them working in one of 8000 state enterprises grouped under the last Communist government in a state holding company, the “Treuhandanstalt”.
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Welfens, P.J.J. (1996). EC Integration and Economic Reforms in CMEA Countries: A United Germany as a Bridge between East and West?. In: Welfens, P.J.J. (eds) Economic Aspects of German Unification. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79972-3_26
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