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Re:Germany records first monthly trade deficit since 1991 as... by quarantaseih on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @03:48AM (#31985516)
"whatever it is supposed to mean for a country like Italy,"

Go look at the econ stats circa 2000 of Veneto, Lombardy and Piedmont and compare them to Germany's.

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Re:Germany records first monthly trade deficit since 1991 as... by mmarq on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @05:49AM (#31986272)
I mean that Italy, especially the north, has one of the strongest industrial sectors in the EU. It’s not a country that has to reindustrialise and even if it were, it would be doing it by debasing its currency.
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