ABSTRACT
In speaking about Germany in a new Europe, one has to make clear that it is a new Germany in a new Europe because they are interlinked in many ways. The division of Europe and Germany ended simultaneously in the fall of 1989 when the Hungary’s foreign minister cut the barbed wire at the border dividing Hungary and Austria. The provisional status of a divided Germany was a cause for the country to keep a low political profile. Germany is nevertheless a major power in the center of Europe. Until Eastern Germany’s infrastructure has been reconstructed, the people will find it difficult to find new social networks. The production sector in the German Democratic Republic employed almost 60 percent of working population, almost 15 percent more than the employment in production in West Germany. East Germany and West Germany can grow together only if the states in the former eastern Germany can supply workable administrations to help investors locate partners.
