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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›
'NOT ACCEPTABLE': HEAD OF BERLIN THEATRE HITS OUT AT VOLKSBUHNE OCCUPATION
Activists fear Chris Dercon, formerly Tate Modern director, will make avant garde and radical theatre more commercial... READ MORE›
GERMANY'S OTHER VOTE: AIRPORT ROW DIVIDES BERLINERS
If you want to get a row going at a Berlin dinner party, just mention Tegel airport... READ MORE›
5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT GERMANY'S ANGELA MERKEL
BERLIN AP -- German voters go to the polls on Sept. 24 and Angela Merkel is hoping to win a mandate for a fourth term as chancellor... READ MORE›
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'MR. PRESIDENT: DON'T BUILD THIS WALL!' BERLIN MAYOR TELLS TRUMP
The day was also the 27th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an irony that did not go unnoticed by many Europeans... READ MORE›
GERMANY REUNIFIED 26 YEARS AGO, BUT SOME DIVISIONS ARE STILL STRONG
Eastern Germany has taken in far fewer refugees than western Germany... READ MORE›
CHINA'S GIFT OF KARL MARX STATUE TO GERMAN TOWN SPARKS REVOLT
Do we want to allow such a rogue regime to set up a statue of Karl Marx in the heart of our city?... 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›
BERLINS DIGITAL EXILES: WHERE TECH ACTIVISTS GO TO ESCAPE THE NSA
Activist Sarah Harrison, who spent four months assisting whistleblower Edward Snowden, has moved to Berlin... 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›
'MR PRESIDENT, DON'T BUILD THIS WALL!'
'Mr President, don't build this wall!' Berlin's mayor urges Trump to learn from history... READ MORE›
MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD LIT UP WITH UNION FLAG IN SOLIDARITY WITH UK FOLLOWING LATEST TERROR ATTACK
Monuments around the world were lit up on Sunday evening with the Union flag in solidarity with Britain after the latest terror attack... 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›
ISRAELI ITALIAN AND POLISH CITIZENS WERE AMONG VICTIMS
She was from Sulmona, in the Abruzzo region east of Rome, and had master's degrees from universities in Bologna and Milan... 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›
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›
YUVAL NOAH HARARI: 2016 AND THE LIBERAL STORY
In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism, it seemed that the liberal story had won... 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›
THE DEATH OF FIDEL CASTRO, SOCIALIST LEADER OF THE THIRD WORLD, ALSO MARKS THE END OF 20TH CENTURY COMMUNISM
The death of Fidel Castro, socialist leader of the third world, also marks the end of 20th century communism... 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›
BERLIN AIRPORT USED IN COLD WAR AIRLIFT IS POISED TO PLAY NEW HUMANITARIAN ROLE
Tempelhof Airport was in the Cold War's early days a lifeline for West Berliners isolated from the world during the Berlin Blockade... 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›
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›
JFK, REAGAN WORDS HELPED BRING DOWN BERLIN WALL
President Ronald Reagan speaks at the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987... READ MORE›