Eastern Germany to lag behind for years to come: study

Twenty-six years after reunification, eastern Germany remains economically anaemic with little prospect of catching up with the rest of the country by 2030, a study published on Wednesday said. Of the eastern states, only "Saxony and Brandenburg will reach the level of overall average German growth" between 2015 and 2030, wrote Joachim Ragnitz of the Ifo economic think-tank. The remaining federal states formed from the former territory of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) -- Mecklenburg-Weste