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Unit 2 Macro: News Videos on the German Economy
9th March 2012
Germany is always an economy worth looking at by students keen to deepen their awareness and understanding of the European economy. There has been a number of good background news stories on the changing centre of gravity in the German and the EU economy and in this blog I am providing links to some of them - all ideal for prompting discussion in the classroom.
Economic gap between East and west Germany narrows (BBC news, Feb 2012)
German mittelstand lessons for UK firms and businesses (BBC News, March 2012)
German economy growth worries (BBC news, February 2012)
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.