t " what works in theory doesn't necessarily work in practice." This is because the economic advancements that were anticipated to bring prosperity to East Germany didn't occur as planned.
             It was assumed that the integration of the economies would be a difficult but attainable goal because West Germany was one of the world's most productive and prosperous economies. The last ten years have shown that this was not the case. Due to East Germany's longtime adherence to communist policies, it faced great complexity in making the transition to a pluralist system as well as a market economy. As Preuss posits these problems were threefold: The genuine economic devastations wrought by the communist regimes, the transformation of the social and economic classes of the command economy and , finally the creation of a constitutional structure for political entities that lack the undisputed integrity of a nation state (48). The failure of the economic integration is at the root of the ills that have plagued the two countrie
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