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by mpweiher 3219 days ago
And it used to be the other way around, with Bavaria being very poor. Decades of Länderfinanzausgleich fixed that.

Now the industries of Northrine-Westfalia have been in decline for some time, so that's been dragging everything down. And Berlin lost a lot of its aid and most of the East is also somewhat northern.