Berlin Wall

Germany on Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe.

'Chisels were sold out across Berlin': Euronews journalists remember the fall of the wall

In this special edition of State of the Union, we took out the red sofa to ask people about their thoughts on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we speak to an MEP who lived through it as a young girl and look at the business of new walls in Europe.

Hardly any other European city has undergone such rapid change in the past 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall

Tunnels were just one of the creative ways East Germans tried to escape to freedom in the West.

Winfried decided to risk everything to escape East Germany to West Berlin just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. This is his tragic story

Winfried Freudenberg died after falling from the hot air balloon he used to fly over the Berlin wall

Hans Schulze was imprisoned by the East German secret police in 1986, accused of spying. He never imagined he would voluntarily return to the Stasi prison, where he now gives guided tours.

The MauAr app shows how the Wall changed and grew over the years and what life was like beside it.

School pupils from western Germany have been discovering the Berlin Wall on a cycling tour. Their route took them through areas where prior to 1989 they would have been shot on sight.

A special art project is trying to get thousands of Berliners to shake hands to symbolise German reunification.

This virtual reality tour begins near the infamous Checkpoint Charlie border station between East and West Berlin.

Today, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall there remain powerful barriers dividing people. The exhibition 'Walls of Power' explores man-made barriers throughout Europe today through the eyes of 44 artists.

It was 60 years ago that the first Trabant rolled off the production line. A symbol of mobility in Communist East Germany, 'Trabis', nicknamed 'plastic bombers', have achieved cult status and are now a collector's item.

Voices of Dissent: Art in the German Democratic Republic 1976-1989

Gunter Schabowski the East German spokesperson whose error led to the demise of the Berlin Wall has died aged 86. Guenter Schabowski, official whose

A part of the Berlin wall can still be seen in Bernauer Strasse. It was here that some of the early escapes from West to East took place. In the

At 21h20 the barrier rose at the frontier post on Bornholmer strasse. The Berlin Wall was open. The decision to throw open the border was announced