62In this respect, the Court of First Instance confined itself to repeating, in paragraph 136 of the contested judgment, an argument adduced by the Commission, namely that the general poor economic situation of the new Länder was a direct consequence not of the division of Germany but of the political system of the German Democratic Republic.
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