A Voice of Leadership Out of East Berlin
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While growing up on "the wrong side" of the wall  in Soviet-controlled East Berlin,    Wolfgang Thierse  was shushed into absolute silence when his father strained to listen to jammed broadcasts of parliamentary debates in West Germany. Thierse dreamed one day of directing such discussions himself.
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BERLIN By publicly questioning whether the big differences in living standards and unemployment in his country could ever be bridged, President Horst KÃ¶hler of Germany broke a taboo few prominent personalities in the political establishment would dare do
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Berlin, Sep 15 (IPS) - The ordination of three rabbis in Germany -- the  first such event since the holocaust -- has been lauded by  politicians and Jewish organisations as a step forward in  Germany's long battle to come to terms with its traumatic  history.
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Germany marked a subdued 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall today, weighed down by high unemployment in the formerly communist east and a sense that in peopleâs hearts the nation has not yet fully reunited.
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BERLIN, Germany _ Once a wall ran down Bernauer Street. It stretched both north and south, and it divided the street, and then the city, and then the world's superpowers.
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Brian Stuhlman finds himself in the heart of one of the world's political hot spots.
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With the reopening of the Bode Museum, a cultural park in the former East Berlin has taken another step toward recovering its place as one of the worldÂs great centers of art.
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BERLIN, Feb. 12 -- A court paroled a onetime leader of Germany's notorious Red Army Faction on Monday after 24 years in prison, stirring bitter memories of the left-wing terrorist group's attacks on law enforcement and business leaders, which plunged the country into fear three decades ago.
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BEIRUT: Poor Gerhard Schroeder. Just when he thought he was making progress pushing German business and political interests with the new all smiling, all friendly Libya, the hand of history brought him back ...
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Nostalgia for symbols of the former communist East Germany remains a money-spinner in Berlin.
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Police 2.0 European Police Congress For two days this week, the Congress Centre in downtown Berlin was one of the safest places on earth. The GDR-style building was packed with policemen, army officers, and private and public security experts.â¦
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Germany's Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, has left Berlin for a five-day visit to China and Japan, with trade and business high on the agenda.
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BAD AROLSEN, Germany- World War II is near its end. The Nazi empire is crumbling from its edges inward as Soviet and Allied forces advance.Comment
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BERLIN/BEIRUT - One of the main organisers of a controversial Islamist conference in the German capital Berlin has been deported to Lebanon, German officials said, less than two weeks before the planned three-day gathering.
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Members of Germany's opposition Green party instructed their leaders at a party congress over the weekend to withdraw their support for the German military engagement in Afghanistan.While the decision cannot actually affect Germany's current foreign policy -- since Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government does not need opposition votes for a renewal of the troop's mandate next month -- it is indicative of the deep split which has developed within the Greens.
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More than a decade and a half after the  collapse of the Berlin Wall, a new east-west divide has opened  up in the city which was for 40 years the front-line of the  Cold War.
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Germany is undergoing a surprisingly robust economic rebound while Angela Merkel's divided government is facing accusations of immobility. Is the recovery sustainable and are the country's leaders missing the golden opportunity afforded by the supportive environment to forge ahead with structural reforms?