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ECONOMICS By: Minerva Alatorre ECONOMIC CAPACITY ECONOMIC CAPACITY Germany is the economic powerhouse of the European Union (EU) and the fourth largest economy in the world. GDP and has the highest number of EU population, making it the largest market in Europe. GDP amounted to two billion 407,200 Euros. STRUCTURE STRUCTURE LOCATION OF INVESTMENT LOCATION OF INVESTMENT Germany is an attractive country for foreign investors. The 500 largest companies in the world are present in the country, in total there are about 45,000 foreign companies. Foreign direct investment: 630.000 million (2007). INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE Along with the big corporations that Germany has a highly developed operate internationally, the core of the infrastructure and dynamic growth. The German economy is constituted by railw