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"Unemployment exploses in Germany" Historical level reached in January
That was the title of an article published by Le Figaro, a French right wing daily with close ties to the ultra-liberal financial world. The article goes on to comment and describe the state of confusion among leading European businessmen faced by the idea that unemployment now has an important role to play on the social political scene; it is also "explosive". Moreover, the subtitle of the article, dated February 6, makes this plain, because it goes on to say that : "the unemployment rate in Germany has reached a record high of 12,6% of the active population in January, plunging the Bonn govenment in chaos." Since 1991, the unemployment rate doubled effecting nearly 5 million people according to official unemployment figures, which are more or less an underestimation. In east Germany, the unemployment rate is 21,1% of the active population while in the west it is now above 10% (10,5%). The editor of a major German newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which can in no way be considered as manipulated by the extreme-left, wrote : " ... for some time already, people's confidence in political parties and the German economy has finally fizzled out." This pessimist view can be explained by the rise of other values in German society, brought about by the movement of the unemployed ...
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