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Germany
30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, how unified is Germany?
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November, 1990, triggered a process that would see East and West Germany reunified as one country a year later. But today only 38 per cent of Germans in the former East feel that reunification has been successful.
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Iran
Euroviews. The EU's misguided Iran strategy is akin to letting the fox into the hen house ǀ View
If the European Commission - and foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in particular - would have the EU assume a more active role in world affairs, they will be presented with a host of difficult choices, few of them black or white. Take, for example, the question of Iran.
Germany
Euroviews. The EU’s Far Right surge is unstoppable if we don’t transform how our democracies work ǀ View
Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, could well be the first major industrial power to fall in a global recession, triggering a Far Right victory that could have a domino effect across the EU.
Germany
Why are this weekend's state elections in Germany so significant?
"It is possible these two results shake up the political system nationwide. But if the SBD stays in power in Bradenburg and the CDU stays in power in Saxony, this could be, as we say in German, a storm in a water bottle (storm in a teacup)."
Iceland
Climate Change top of the agenda as Nordic ministers meet in Iceland
The meeting comes after environmentalists in Iceland laid a commemorative plaque on the site of a Glacier on Sunday that had been declared dead. The Okjökull glacier had existed for 700 years and was Iceland's first glacier to disappear.
My Europe Series
Was von der Leyen's charm offensive enough to get MEP approval?
Von der Leyen finished her meetings with political groups in Brussels, but it's unclear if she will win the absolute majority of votes in Strasbourg. In other news, Angela Merkel decided to change protocol to prevent her from shaking. All this and more in the State of the Union.