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Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić said that Serbia will do everything in its power to become a full-fledged EU member-state as soon as possible. He added that he should not be expected to give a date, saying that several weeks ago, the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

Land Rover's Discovery was launched twenty years ago today. So, just after the Berlin Wall had come down enabling half of Europe to stretch its legs in unfamiliar territory, us Brits could tackle the tricky terrain of the Tesco car park in a Land Rover that wasn't designed for ease of mucking out (Defender) or ...

Looking back at the era of a cold warrior“MR GORBACHEV, tear down this wall”. Ronald Reagan’s stirring speech at the Berlin Wall on June 12th 1987 was not the death blow to communism, but it did highlight the West’s renewed confidence in demanding what had previously been impossible. Though the ...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been embroiled in a bizarre controversy after he claimed that he had personally helped to demolish the Berlin Wall on the first day of its fall 20 years ago. Sarkozy has posted on Facebook a photo of himself chipping away at the Berlin Wall with a ...

Berlin celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday with symbolism, fireworks and concerts, VOA reports. Current and former world leaders joined tens of thousands of people who marked the event. But amid much joy was also a note of caution.

When Mahatma Gandhi was asked what he thought about Western civilization, he answered:I think it would be a good idea.I feel the same way about free market capitalism.It would be a good idea, but it is not what we have now. Instead, we have either soci...

U2 & Jay-Z Perform "Sunday Bloody Sunday" at MTV Europe Awards At last night's MTV Europe Awards, Jay-Z joined U2 for a new look at the classic "Sunday Bloody Sunday." Performed at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the fall ...

World leaders past and present are in Berlin to celebrate the “happiest day in recent German history.” They will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the event that led to German reunification, the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Soviet ...

President Boris Tadić said that the Western Balkans region is tearing down its “Berlin Wall” with the its aspirations for joining the European Union. He said that the walls will be broken down when the region joins the EU, adding that this historical moment will complete the process of ...

Barack Obama travels to Asia, taking in visits to Japan and China• BARACK OBAMA begins a trip to Asia on Thursday November 12th. A visit to Japan could prove to be frosty, even though the country is America's most important ally in the region, as the newly elected government has ...

U2 and Jay-Z performed “Sunday Bloody Sunday” during a concert in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany on Thursday. U2 performed a free concert in collaboration with MTV Europe Music Awards to help the city celebrate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Articles mentioning “globalisation” in The Economist“GLOBALISATION” is a relatively recent term. A search in the archives of this newspaper, perhaps the one most closely associated with globalisation, shows the word first used in 1961 in an article on the need for economic reform in Spain. Only in the 1980s did ...

Public enthusiasm for democracy and capitalism is waning in many former communist countriesTHE fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 marked the beginning of the end of communism in Europe and, for many, the dawn of a new, democratic era. Two decades later, however, enthusiasm for democracy and capitalism ...

U2 will perform a free concert to help the city celebrate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, MTV announced on Tuesday evening. The Irish rockers will perform in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Nov. 5 during the network’s Europe Music Awards, hosted by Katy Perry. The band’s ...

Freshly re-elected Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday begins what could be prickly talks with her new coalition partners over forming a government amid growing tension between the allies. The talks, between Merkel’s conservatives (CDU/CSU) and the liberal Free Democrats (FDP), could last weeks as they thrash out the policies and ...

Will the Free Democrats quell east Europe's fears?EASTERN EUROPE owes a huge debt to the Germans. By showing that capitalism worked better than planned economies, West Germany helped win the cold war. East Germans kept trying to escape, forcing the Soviet-backed regime to build the Berlin Wall, destroying communism’s claim ...

David Hasselhoff is all set to return to Germany for celebrating the anniversary of his greatest personal triumph—singing at the fall of the Berlin Wall. The actor cum singer wowed “a million people” in Germany – home of his biggest, most devoted fan base – when the Berlin Wall was brought ...

A Generation Y reader sent me a piece of the Berlin Wall. The fragment of concrete has come to me, a person also surrounded...

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh held bilateral meetings with his Bangladeshi and Vietnamese counterparts — Sheikh Hasina and Nguyen Tan Dung respectively on the sidelines of the XVth Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit here on Wednesday. Leaders of developing states that make up NAM had earlier said the world needs a financial ...