A European Germany, not a German Europe

The fall of the Berlin Wall did not lead automatically to the benign reunification of Germany. It created the opportunity for positive change, but making it happen took clear thinking and hard political work.

Berlin's Brandenburg Gate was the site of then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan's famous speech, where he called for the Berlin wall to be torn down. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 6, 2019

LONDON, U.K.—The fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years ago on Saturday, was one of the best parties I ever went to, and certainly the longest. But when I finally sobered up, it was also quite frightening, because nobody knew what was coming out of the box next. ...

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