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The Eastern Committee of the German Economy expects growth in exports to Russia to double this year despite all the political and economic hurdles. It also opposes new US sanctions against Russia, saying they will hurt German businesses.See also: No more! New anti-Russian U.S. sanctions prompt German business lobby to urge EU action
"Earlier we expected this year's growth in exports would be ten percent compared with 2016," the committee's executive director Michael Harms told journalists on Thursday in Berlin, adding "now we believe the growth rate will come at 20 percent."
In previous years, the committee has reported a steady decline in German exports to Russia due to Western sanctions which threatened thousands of jobs in the country. It said that within the EU, the German economy had paid the highest price for the crisis with medium-sized enterprises most affected.
"[Wasserman Schultz] kept him on her staff. He was a taxpayer-funded government employee until yesterday when she finally fired him," McDaniel said during a Fox Business Network interview on Wednesday. "We need to figure out why he's under criminal investigation and we're not hearing that across the country right now."According to the Daily Caller, Imran "repeatedly tried to retrieve the smashed drives", and Wasserman Shultz "threatened a police chief with 'consequences' if he continued to investigate a laptop that was used by Imran."
"We have to get to the bottom of this, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz has obstructed at every level on something that affects potentially our national security," she continued. "We are not hearing the Democrats talk about it at all. Where's Debbie Wasserman Schultz?"
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