2015, 2016, 2017....hence my saying "last I checked"...and I agree with you re immigrating people who just can't agree with a country's laws and social contract.
I think you did not quite get my point. I tried to contrast Germany today vs 10 years ago, well before the latest immigration wave from Syria. I stated it did not appear in October 2018 (when I was in Germany) to be all that different from 10 years ago, in terms of visible numbers of Muslims, refugees or migrants in German cities or villages. I did not argue the case about Turkish immigrants who are in Germany for a very particular reason, namely the granting of permanent residency after they along Italians and Greeks helped rebuilt Germany after the war. Berlin is one of the most hip places in all of Europe. It may not be your cup of tea, nor is it mine, but it certainly is not a shit hole. It has an even richer history and culture than Paris or London and certainly houses the highest number of monuments, museums, art galleries, and historical relics per square mile among any city in the world (I could probably argue the number might be higher than Paris and London combined). New York is like an untouched national park in comparison.
Wow this dude volpunter/GRULSTMRNN got triggered. Page 2 of this thread is just him with walls of text.
Germany has a GDP of 3,684.816 billion $ in 2017. UK has a GDP of 2,624.529 billion $ in 2017. Germany has a population of 82,293,457. UK has a population of 66,573,504. If we do the math the GDP of Germany is 40.40% higher than the UK. The population of Germany is 23.6% bigger than the UK. Final result is that the GDP per capita in Germany is 13.5% higher than in the UK. Not Germany are the suckers, the UK are. People prefer from far German products above UK products. And on top of that in 2017 the German gdp rose, but the UK gdp had a NEGATIVE growth. Uk is in recession not Germany. https://statisticstimes.com/economy/european-countries-by-gdp.php Regarding unemployment: UK has unemployment around 4.1%. German unemployment is so low that it is even not in the list. https://www.statista.com/statistics/268830/unemployment-rate-in-eu-countries/ I am out now, because I read a lot of BS here. Don't want to spent time on that.
No point of arguing with those who spread false news. They know it is false and they won't come around admitting it. I admit I got sucked into this BS. Good on you that you have the backbone to gracefully remove yourself from those haters.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/gdp-growth The British economy grew by 0.6 percent on quarter in the three months to September 2018, https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gdp-growth The German economy shrank a seasonally-adjusted 0.2 percent on quarter in the three months to September of 2018, https://tradingeconomics.com/italy/gdp 'The Italian economy unexpectedly shrank 0.1 percent quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter of 2018', Italian GDP is less than 2006 (not 2000 as i stated). https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/unemployment-rate?continent=europe Germany unemployment rate 3.4% (low, but still on the list), UK is 4.1%, Italy 10.6% (!), France 9.1%.
Mate, I dunno what you are on about...you should learn to read...my post looked at 2018 data not 2017.
Wonder if the euro will collapse today? ECB is withdrawing it's QE programme. In conference atm, market doesn't seem to like what they are saying hahaha
Data for 2018 can only be correct after end of 2018. Germany had better growth for Q1 and Q2. We will see after Q4. And even then UK is far behind Germany.