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True. Germany has the economic clout to manipulate the European Union and the Euro Zone to its benefits.
because in germany economy and government worked hand in hand. As crisis hit, corporations made an agreement to not fire people. They reduced their working hours, say to 60%. So they only paid you 60% salary. At same time the government jumped in and paid so called shorttime money to fill up your income to 100%. That way workers had no loss in income. The hours you did not work were used to teach you new stuff for your job and in education programs. As recession ended, corporations had to,produce more but had all their old staff at hand. That way they could jump from 0 to 100 in an instant and had an advantage over non german corporations who lacked their skilled workers.