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Germany: Country analysis
Political environment
Germany is a parliamentary democracy. It is a multi-party system, which means that political parties must often share power to govern. It is currently led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, who became Germany's first female chancellor in 2009. Merkel is the leader of the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU). Merkel won a close election and serves as "chancellor in a 'grand coalition' involving the CDU, its Christian Social Union (CSU) allies and the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD)" ("Germany," BBC, 2012). Merkel has faced recent resistance from the Germany populace, who are growing increasingly discontented with the feeling that Germany is being forced to 'bail out' financially undisciplined members of the European Community, to preserve the EC in the wake of the meltdown of the Greek economy and the near-economic meltdown of other Southern European nations. "As one of the richer countries in the EU, Germany was faced with the prospect of having to make huge contributions to bailouts for debt-ridden countries such as Greece, and popular resentment over this triggered a political backlash at home" ("Germany," BBC, 2012). "Now that Greece is on the verge of defaulting, its monetary partners will have to hand over huge loans to help keep the country solvent -- all in order to prevent the euro from going into a free fall and becoming mere Monopoly money.... 53% of [the German] people want Greece tossed out of the euro zone if it can't resolve its deficit dilemma without outside funding -- a financial helping hand that a full 71% of Germans don't want their government to extend" (Crumly 2009).
Economic environment
Ever since its economic recovery after World War II, Germany has had one of the strongest economies of all of the European major powers. It is Europe's largest and most heavily-industrialized nation. Its economy is export-dependent, but technological innovation and a strong sense of fiscal discipline enabled it to rebound after the recent global recession. Concerns about the...
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2% of the population is younger than 14; 58.2% is aged between 15 and 64 and 3.6% is over the age of 65. This affect Giam's in a positive way as most of the population is properly aged to work The median age of the population is 20.2 years, with 19.9 years for men and 20.4 years for women The birth rate is of 29.85 births per 1000 individuals The death rate is
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