Berlin Wall 30th anniversary

World

Meet the man who tunnelled under the wall to help East Germans escape

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

08/11/2019

Germany

Remembering the last person killed trying to escape to west Berlin

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

07/11/2019

Germany

Watch: Former West German prisoner tells a Stasi love story

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.

06/11/2019

USA

Euroviews. A free market brings freedom. Just look at what could be without a strong market ǀ View

When the Berlin Wall came down, and the Soviet Union collapsed, a lot of us thought the war was over and the “good guys” had won. Capitalism was the dominant economic system and the free market was accepted almost everywhere as the path to prosperity and human happiness. Or so we thought.

06/11/2019

Germany

Watch: German pupils discover Berlin Wall by bike

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.

05/11/2019

Bulgaria

30 years after 1989, central Europeans say democracy is again at risk

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

04/11/2019

Germany

What was the Berlin Wall? | Euronews answers

An idiot's guide to exactly what went down 30 years ago - and why it matters.

04/11/2019

Germany

Breaking the mould: Handshake project marks Berlin Wall anniversary

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

02/11/2019