Eastern Germany will never attract enough investment to start growing again if it fails to root out its neo-Nazi problem, a leading management consultant said this week.
Roland Berger said east German far-right extremism was scaring off the immigrants who were desperately needed to boost the struggling economy.
Everything else was in place. "There is only one thing standing in its way," the 75-year-old consultant told Thursday's Die Zeit weekly newspaper.
"He who sees neo-Nazis marching through eastern Germany towns twice a week does not usually want to move there. And what should a migrant think?"
The fight against the far-right could only be won if culture in the east was given priority and hugely expanded, Berger said. Full story...
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Roland Berger said east German far-right extremism was scaring off the immigrants who were desperately needed to boost the struggling economy.
Everything else was in place. "There is only one thing standing in its way," the 75-year-old consultant told Thursday's Die Zeit weekly newspaper.
"He who sees neo-Nazis marching through eastern Germany towns twice a week does not usually want to move there. And what should a migrant think?"
The fight against the far-right could only be won if culture in the east was given priority and hugely expanded, Berger said. Full story...
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