It takes time for that. We should have cut regulations and pushed them back. I hope one day we will use these experiences to push back regulations in western Germany, too. German unification has proven more difficult because we had underestimated the impact that forty years of Communism had and do have on the minds of the people. Of course, adjusting to a system and to an order of freedom has its advantages, and it is attractive.
People can travel, which was one of the major wishes of our eastern German countrymen.
Yet freedom means chances and risks. And risks did not exist in communist society. The German economy is overregulated. We have a huge report from a deregulation commission with numerous proposals to deregulate the economy. The telecommunications sector is of course always of interest to American companies as well as the utilities and power plant sector, banking, and insurance.