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West German citizens gather at a newly created opening in the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz in November 1989
GERMANY remains a divided country, with many from the east viewing themselves as second-class citizens, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new government report has found.
Many citizens will join events marking the destruction of the wall, which had cut off West Berlin from the surrounding German Democratic Republic, including East Berlin.
Some are using the occasion to celebrate the “collapse of communism,” seeing the anniversary as symbolic of the triumph of the capitalist system.
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
NICK WRIGHT returns to Berlin and finds a city in darkness and political turmoil
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
