4 in the former GDR 4535 million jobseekers

At 18 o'clock, this evening, the whole Germany will be TV. The national eleven, indeed, to play Munich, against the modest team of Costa Rica, the first game of the 18th football World Cup. Competition that brings together 32 teams from five continents and the final will take place on Sunday 9 July at 20 hours, at the Olympic Stadium of Berlin.

Until the players coached by Jürgen Klinsmann, a former international who is alleged to spend more time in California that in Germany, come into action, endless opening ceremony will allow André Heller show show expertise. And the German rocker Herbert Grönemeyer to interpret the World Cup anthem before some 50,000 spectators and hundreds of millions of television viewers, who will all be pleased to welcome the presence on the lawn of old glories of football: Pelé, sir Bobby Charlton, the Argentine Ardiles...

Sixty-three other matches are planned here in the final. The first of the team of France will be held Tuesday in Stuttgart, one of the 12 cities of the "WM", the WeltMeisterschaft home. Cities whose stadiums were renovated, modernized, or even created from scratch. This is the case of Allianz Arena Munich and Leipzig facilities, the only town of the former GDR to host meetings.

Heavy investment

So this sporting event global resonance can take place under the best conditions, the Germany developed the table more than 6 billion euros. This amount corresponds only to public and private infrastructure directly related to the competition. It does not take into account, for example, them are devoted to the expansion of a hotel. Neither the heaviest operations indirectly justified by the "world": the construction of the Berlin Central station, opened on May 26. Cost: 10 billion euros, of which 700 million for the station itself, and 9.3 billion for the total redesign of the rail network in and around the federal capital.

Despite the presence in Germany of at least 1 million foreign visitors about a third of the spectators very sustained activity in several areas (restaurant, hotel, electronic public...) and recovery of consumption, one expects that this event revenue balance spending. As mobilization, for security reasons, 250,000 police, supported by thousands of military personnel, should increase the invoice. But federal officials and elected representatives of the cities and the Länder concerned all recognize that able to arrange such a sporting event is a unique chance.

0.5 point of growth and more

Experts believe that the world could generate 0.5 point and additional growth on the 50,000 jobs which have induced the creation, 20,000 should be perennial.

In addition, an excellent route for the national team, at least a qualification for the semi-finals, are likely to have a very positive impact. In terms of household consumption one of the main weak points of the German economy, whose growth is sustained almost entirely by the performance of the "made in Germany" on key foreign markets and recovery of productive investment. Stimulus, of course, would reduce the high level of unemployment: 10.8 of the active population (9.2 in the West and 17.4 in the former GDR), 4,535 million job-seekers.

For sporting, economic and political reasons, the Germany will vibrate in unison to his team. For a full month, hope. Because she dreams to win the Cup at Bern in 1954 in Munich, in 1974, and in Rome, in 1990. A dream maintained by the President of the Organizing Committee, the champion ex-grand Franz Beckenbauer, who has not hesitated to declare that "the Germany is with the Brazil the main favourite in the competition."