Think about how they went from being the “Sick Man of Europe” in the very early 2000s to that. It was not because of the free market. And it happened very suddenly.
“Think about how they went from being the “Sick Man of Europe” in the very early 2000s to that.”
In the early 2000s they were just a decade out from being a divided nation, half of which was crippled by communism for decades. It’s really no big surprise that the former industrial powerhouse of Europe returned to being a powerhouse once they were reunited.