> But since poor East Germany rejoined West Germany in 1990, England no longer lags far behind Germany. Depending on which numbers you use, the English parts of

> But since poor East Germany rejoined West Germany in 1990, England no longer lags far behind Germany. Depending on which numbers you use, the English parts of the United Kingdom may already exceed Germany in GDP per capita. If recent trends continue, the U.K. as a whole could even overtake Germany in gross output by the year 2030. So after 2008/2009, when everything Germany did was great and everything England did was bad, because the crisis affected Germany much less than England, we are now back to extrapolating, after London got back on its feet? In 2015 1.1 million people fled to Germany and birth-rates are rising. For me long-term estimates of economic numbers (which are largely based on demographic estimates) seem like complete guessings, because we simply do not know how this will play out.