reunification

Germany celebrates 20 years of reunification (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, left, react during a 20 year reunification anniversary meeting of the German Christian Democratic Party in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)AP - Germany’s president is marking the 20th anniverary of the country’s reunification — celebrating its increasing sense of national pride while also stressing the importance of integrating immigrants.


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20 years on, Germans reflect on reunification (AP)

October 1st, 2010

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin. Twenty years after the unification of East and West Germany, old habits still die hard with even Chancellor Merkel confessing she still can't shed some of her East German tendencies. Merkel, who grew up in communist East Germany, still washes her laundry with East German 'fit' detergent, prepares East Germans' favorite Soljanka soup, an often eclectic mix of ingredients like sausage, cabbage and sour cream in a pickle juice broth for supper and can't fight a predilection to hoard food and other goods. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)AP - Angela Merkel, the leader of Europe’s richest country, still hoards food.


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Germany leades eurozone to stronger growth (AP)

August 13th, 2010

Shoppers are seen in front of Paris main department stores Wednesday Aug. 11, 2010. Second quarter data due to be released Friday Aug. 13 is widely expected to show an acceleration, thanks to strong export-led growth in Europe's economic engine Germany. Economic growth in the 16 countries that share the euro was just 0.2 percent in the first quarter, and analysts say the recovery can only really take root if consumers open their pocketbooks. Second quarter data due to be released Friday is widely expected to show an acceleration, thanks to strong export-led growth in Europe's economic engine Germany. Germany, is back in gear after a painful recession, as foreign customers snap up cars and industrial machinery and the country reaps the benefits of stimulus spending that helped keep the motor running at home during the downturn.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - The economy of the 16 countries that use the euro expanded by a better-than-expected 1 percent during the second quarter before as growth engine Germany expanded at its…

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