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GERMANS SEE ALMOST NO PROGRESS ON EAST-WEST UNITY IN THE PAST 7 YEARS STUDY SAYS
Eastern Germany still lags behind the western parts of the country in terms of its economic performance and unemployment rates, despite continuous financial assistance since reunification... READ MORE›
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GERMANY REUNIFIED 26 YEARS AGO, BUT SOME DIVISIONS ARE STILL STRONG
Eastern Germany has taken in far fewer refugees than western Germany... READ MORE›
A PROMISE THAT COULD SET THE WORLD ON A DANGEROUS PATH
The arms race also dictated that the Soviet Union respond with overwhelming retaliation against the United States, to quickly neutralize any further threat... READ MORE›
GERMANY IS TURNING 62 MILITARY BASES INTO WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES
Today the European Green Belt is an ecological network and memorial landscape running from the Barents to the Black Sea... READ MORE›
EUROPE WILL FIND WAY TO KEEP BRITAIN IN EU SAYS GERMAN MINISTER
West Berlin chauvinism, lording it over the humiliated East, hastened the destruction of many East Germany landmarks that, also unpredictably, are now prized as architecturally significant and historically irreplaceable... READ MORE›
BERLIN MARKET ATTACK MARS SQUARE WHERE THREE ERAS COEXIST
My friend Uli Kempendorff, who grew up in East Berlin, emailed me on Monday night... READ MORE›
AS GERMANY MARKS FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL, GORBACHEV WARNS OF NEW COLD WAR
As germany marks fall of the berlin wall gorbachev warns of new cold war... READ MORE›
NINE SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
An East Berlin policeman adds bricks to heighten the Berlin Wall to 15 feet Oct... READ MORE›
BALLOONS REPLACE BARBED WIRE AS ILLUMINATED INSTALLATION MARKS ROUTE 25 YEARS AFTER THE FALL
Fall of the Berlin Wall Balloons replace barbed wire as illuminated installation marks route 25 years after the fall... READ MORE›
RUSSIA SAYS WILL RETALIATE IF U.S. WEAPONS STATIONED ON ITS BORDERS
MOSCOW WARSAW A plan by Washington to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia's border would be the most aggressive U.S... READ MORE›
HELMUT KOHL: LEADER WHO UNITED EUROPE AS WELL AS GERMANY
Both reasoned that Europe would only be safe and secure if its two leading powers and its most frequent antagonists, France and Germany, worked in tandem... READ MORE›
NATO LAUNCHES LARGEST AIRBORNE DRILLS IN EUROPE SINCE END OF COLD WAR
It said the exercise marks the first time the US 82nd Airborne Division has operated in Europe since supporting Nato operations in Kosovo in 1999... READ MORE›
GERMAN FAR-LEFT PARTY TAKES STATE PARLIAMENT
Thuringia was part of East Germany until reunification, and many have expressed dismay at the former communists' return to power... READ MORE›
MISSING WOMAN FOUND 30 YEARS AFTER MAN CONFESSED TO HER MURDER
Ms Pazsitka said she spent the last 11 years in Dusseldorf, previously living in several other cities in west Germany, according to police... READ MORE›
SLEUTH WORK LEADS TO DISCOVERY OF ART BELOVED BY HITLER
Two large and imposing bronze horses by Josef Thorak missing from a Soviet military base outside Berlin since some point in communism's collapse were available... READ MORE›
EUROPE WILL FIND WAY TO KEEP BRITAIN IN EU SAYS GERMAN MINISTER
West Berlin chauvinism, lording it over the humiliated East, hastened the destruction of many East Germany landmarks that, also unpredictably, are now prized as architecturally significant and historically irreplaceable... READ MORE›
RUSSIA'S 1989 PLEA FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER WAS REJECTED, AND SO PUTINISM WAS BORN
As the cold war ended, Mikhail Gorbachev wanted a new political community, with Russia as an equal partner. The west refused to countenance it... READ MORE›
THE SPIES WHO LOVED ME: MY DAD, THE STASI AGENT
He was locked away for three years after 10 informants betrayed him to the Stasi, East Germany's feared secret service... READ MORE›
PENTAGON CHIEF TO PUSH U.S. ALLIES TO DITCH 'COLD WAR PLAYBOOK'
Relations between Moscow and the West have plunged to a post-Cold War low since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea region... READ MORE›
SKEPTICISM CONFUSION OVER AUSTRALIA SUBMARINE TENDER PLEDGE
Speaking in Sochi, Russia, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said that a Wednesday meeting would require agreement between Russia and the West on key points beforehand... READ MORE›
FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: THE GUARD WHO OPENED THE GATE - AND MADE HISTORY
Mr J ger, now 71, is renowned in Germany for being the man who opened the Berlin Wall ... READ MORE›
EAST GERMAN OFFICER HARALD JAEGER EXPLAINS WHY HE OPENED THE BERLIN WALL
Within hours East Germans were dancing on the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate and other border crossings soon opened... READ MORE›
FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: GOOGLE COMMEMORATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY WITH VIDEO DOODLE
The Berlin Wall was East Germany's way of keeping East Germans from fleeing into the West... READ MORE›
GNTER SCHABOWSKI WHOSE GAFFE HELPED BURST THE BERLIN WALL DIES AT 86
Within hours, thousands of East Germans were thronging the checkpoints to West Berlin, demanding to be allowed to cross... READ MORE›
FILE IS SAID TO CONFIRM NSA SPIED ON MERKEL
That could support claims in the German news media that Britain eavesdropped on a fellow European Union member and passed the information to the United States... READ MORE›
ALIENS HELPED STOP THE THIRD WORLD WAR SAYS APOLLO 14 ASTRONAUT EDGAR MITCHELL
Mitchell's views seemingly coincide with those of another major UFO incident that took place near Rendlesham Forest in the 1980s... READ MORE›
SOME LEADERS LOVE BORDER WALLS, BUT DO THEY WORK?
East Berlin 'cut off from the world' The Berlin Wall wasn't built to collect taxes or to stop invaders, but to keep people in... READ MORE›
NO BAILOUT CAN SAVE GREECE FROM ITSELF
Fuest's logic is simple Emergency loans to Greece are not really loans... READ MORE›
WE CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE GREECE TO RUSSIA
Never mind that the peril of having fallen the wrong side of the Iron Curtain are all too clearly exemplified by Greece's neighbours... READ MORE›
NATO SAYS WON'T BE DRAGGED INTO ARMS RACE WITH RUSSIA
The United States said on Monday it would contribute special operations forces, intelligence and other high-end military assets to the new spearhead force... READ MORE›