When asked by Tony Blair for the secret of her country’s resilience, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said: “We still make things.” It is a question you often hear in the US nowadays. It would be an exaggeration to say Germany is back in fashion. There is too much disapproval of Berlin’s handling of the eurozone crisis for that. Yet when it comes to the labour market, the US is suffering from a rising case of “German envy”, as one analyst puts it.
当托尼•布莱尔(Tony Blair)问起德国manbetx20客户端下载 具有韧性(resilience)的秘诀时,德国总理安格拉•默克尔(Angela Merkel)答道:“我们仍在制造东西。”如今在美国经常能听到人们谈论这个问题。说德国又变得吃香有些夸张,毕竟柏林方面处理欧元区危机的方式备受诟病。然而就劳动力市场而言,用一位分析师的话来说,美国患了越来越严重的“德国妒嫉症”。