Ahead of her visit to Israel tonight, Germany’s Angela Merkel is celebrating the 28th anniversary of the reunification of east and west, a process that she says still isn’t complete.
Germany was reunited on October 3, 1990, following more than four decades of Cold War division, and less than a year after communist East Germany opened its heavily fortified border. While much progress has been made since, economic and other differences between east and west still persist.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center and other German officials sit prior to an ecumenical mass at the Berlin Cathedral during the German Unification Day public festival in Berlin, Germany, on October 3, 2018. (AFP/ Tobias SCHWARZ)
The country’s leaders are marking the anniversary in a ceremony Wednesday at Berlin’s Staatsoper opera house.
Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, said: “28 years later, we know that what we call German unity is a process, a long road.” She said it’s important for Germans to “listen to each other.”
— AP
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