"What troubles me is that we will see in Germany no approximation of the East German income to the West German income anymore, because productivity stays so far behind."
— Helmut Schmidt

January 1, 1970

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speech "The catch-up process of the East has gone to end in 1996 - What to do?" at the 10. May 2004 for the "Erfurt Dialogues", thueringen.de