“Over the years, more than 60,000 jobs have been created here.”

What happened?
The 90s were a brutal era. At the beginning of 2000 there was 20 percent unemployment, a massive exodus from the city and major social structural problems. The reason the region survived as a socio-economic unit was entrepreneurship. Thousands of companies emerged in the 90s. Later, with further integration into Western institutions, first into NATO, later into the EU, and with the strong interdependence and interdependence with the German economy, the state developed institutional stability, Corruption has been successfully fought. And thanks to our integration with the German economy and our accession to the EU, we have started to develop again.