Paradoxically, the very success of democratic systems may thus also sow the seeds of their potential undoing. This is a phenomenon akin to the paradox of disease prevention, where the success of ...

For 28 years a 155km-long concrete wall snaked through the centre of Berlin, separating the Soviet-backed East from the capitalist West. Built in 1961 to stop residents from fleeing communist ...

It was “a lucky day for which we Germans are still grateful today," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said of November 9th 1989 in a ...

If you’re too young to remember the tearing down of the Berlin Wall or even to realize why it mattered, Washington, D.C., may ...

German borrowing costs surged by the most since the fall of the Berlin Wall as a pledge to do ‘whatever it takes’ to boost its defences sent its bonds into free fall. In what was described as a ...

Since Iranian singer-songwriter Gola fled her home country in 2011, she has continued her fight for women's rights in exile Twenty five years ago this autumn the Berlin Wall was pulled down ... In the ...

The borders remained shut until the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, with Germany reuniting in October 1990. The wall came down amid unrest in East Germany and a wave of revolutions in ...

(Bloomberg) -- German bonds suffered their worst day since the months following the fall of the Berlin Wall on an historic spending plan that will unlock hundreds of billions of euros for defense ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial ... political and historical context that led to the wall’s construction, its fall and the reunification of Germany.