Schengen is now a symbol of the migration crisis driving the backlash against globalization and the ascendance of ...
Nikita Khrushchev had become leader of the Soviet Union in 1956. In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that ...
East German police and soldiers sealed the most frequently used border crossings between East and West Berlin with barbed wire. Soviet troops began to replace the wire with a concrete wall.
Yes, housing can feel joyful, even if you're not a millionaire. Visitors walk through the Zehlendorf forest settlement, ...
At Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin, where U.S. and Soviet tanks once faced off at point-blank range, Communist border guards last week erected Christmas trees. It was as paradoxical a symbol ...
And when the crisis came, it did. Without the fall of the Berlin wall, West Germany may not have ever consented to the EMU (or the eurozone). The project would have got underway much later ...
So much so that the incoming government, with about 60 percent pro-crypto members, might consider bitcoin as a solution to a $35 trillion national debt crisis. From President-elect Donald Trump ...
The Sony Center in Berlin stands in the high-sheen Potsdamer Platz, where the Wall had split the city ... Updated July 8th—The long-rolling crisis over Greece’s indebtedness is now reaching ...
In the wake of the crisis on the Poland-Belarus border ... Thirty-two years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are now 1,800km of walls and fences either built or under construction ...
Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. News Wrap: Anonymous official’s book ...
Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...