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Tonight's featured story is an anniversary: East and West Germany reunified 25 years ago this weekend. The Guardian's Kate Connolly writes from Berlin: German reunification 25 years on: how different are east and west reallyAfter two and a half decades of growing back together, huge gaps remain between the two former halves. We take a look at how they compare
When East and West Germany reunited 25 years ago this weekend, the country was drunk on euphoria and a sense of heightened optimism. While reigning chancellor Helmut Kohl promised “flourishing landscapes”, his predecessor Willy Brandt produced the now legendary sentence: “What belongs together, will grow together”. But how united is Germany a generation on?
The Berlin Institute for Population and Development concluded in a recent study that half of all Germans believe there are more differences between “Ossis” (easterners) and “Wessis” (westerners) than commonalities.
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