One of the problems facing the Eurozone is that Greece, Ireland and Spain enjoyed rapid growth and allowed their real wage levels to rise faster than labour productivity. They thus lost competitiveness to Germany which contained real wages growth by a program of deregulation. Given that the member countries could not rely on depreciation of their exchange rate to offset this competitive loss their domestic wage adjustment now has to be more painful.
Answer: False
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