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The fall of the Berlin Wall dramatically and suddenly accelerated the collapse of communism in Europe. Thirty years later, the situation is very different. International cooperation has hit serious roadblocks, and nationalism became the dominant creed.

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French chocolate-maker Patrick Roger built a giant chocolate 'wall' in Paris to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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"It appears that some of the freedoms won in the 1989 revolutions are now under pressure," the report from the Open Society Foundation found.

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

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

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Around 500 runners from 32 countries will run along the 160-kilometre path where the Berlin Wall once stood.

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Two women have been reunited 58 years since they appeared in a now-famous photo shaking hands over the Berlin Wall.

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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.

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