The German Economy and East-Central Europe: The Development of Intra-Industry Trade from Ostpolitik to the Present.

The article discusses the development of economic relations between Germany and the countries of East-Central Europe from the period of Ostpolitik in the 1970s to circa 2010. Topics considered include labor markets, German exports, the impact of German unification on foreign economic relations, German monetary policy, the liberalization of post-communist countries, and the expansion of the European Union into Eastern Europe.