The current government is made up of the Greens and the SPD. The election was precipitated by the departure from the coalition of the free market(ish) FDP, which seems unlikely to reach the 5 ...

When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of ...

The night the Berlin Wall ... cutters and circular saws to reduce the Wall into small chunks and assemble them as souvenirs.

Thirty years later, Garton Ash acknowledges that across Central and Eastern Europe, “the reality” of post-Berlin Wall Europe “did not live up to the ... Community that put on lectures ...

Alarmed by the building of the Berlin Wall, President Kennedy sent his Vice ... Eg in Hungary in 1956, the Hungarian rebels were being violently repressed by the Soviet army and in the Truman ...

with the people of Berlin by saying he too was 'a Berliner'. Those who tried to defect could now end up being shot and many families were divided by the wall. Kennedy showed that, although he was ...