Files of the deposed secret police were opened. German unification led to a landmark summit in 1992 at which 12 European countries adopted a common currency and gave more power to supranational ...

Europe’s geopolitical map, just 20 years after the breach ... Between the wall’s opening (November 1989) and Germany’s unification (October 1990), history lurched forward with no fixed ...

the geopolitical landscape of Europe. This mysterious communication, known as the Stalin Note, proposed the unification of East and West Germany, a prospect that tantalised some and alarmed others.

A quarter century after Berlin’s infamous wall fell, Germany has summarised its unification to date as a political success but an economic work in progress. An official study into the mammoth ...

we do not want to wake up one morning and find that events have moved entirely beyond our control and that German re-unification is to all intents and purposes on us," he wrote on 8 December 1989. But ...

The unification of Germany was as bold as it was risky. After the collapse of the Berlin Wall, political heavyweights including former Chancellor Helmut Kohl pushed hard to merge two very different ...

Helmut Kohl, Germany’s long-serving unity chancellor and a towering figure in European unification, has died aged 87 after a long illness. Dr Kohl was elected West German chancellor in 1982 and ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, the first and last free elections in the GDR in 1990, the unification process ... Future for Germany and Europe". Directly below, the authors ...