In the event of a peace settlement dividing Ukraine in two, the nations of the West have a critical interest in strengthening the western half—both as a bulwark against Russian encroachment and as a ...

Its capital city not only shuts its people in with an infamous wall, but its western borders ... name of East Germany’s Secretariat for All-German Affairs to the Secretariat of West German ...

About an hour into the rambling news conference, Schabowski mentioned that East Germany was lifting all restrictions on travel across its border into West Germany. Pressed on when the new ...

Although no one could have predicted the extraordinary events that rocked East Germany in ... to open its borders to allow more than 12,000 East Germans to leave for the West.

East Germany’s government had developed strict ... around 3.5 million East Germans migrated to the West. After the border was fortified and emigration severely restricted, the number of people ...

They were crossing the border from Hungary, where the regime had torn gaping holes in the Iron Curtain that separated East from West. Meanwhile at home in East Germany, for those protesters who ...

This also applies to East Germany, even if here exports to the US play a smaller role than for the West German economy. In 2024, gross domestic product (GDP) in East Germany fell by 0.1% ...

KEHL, Germany — Germany on Monday began random checks at its borders with five Western European nations as it seeks to crack down on irregular migration, expanding a system of mobile border ...

Mr. Kuisz is a political analyst and historian. Ms. Wigura is a historian of ideas. They wrote from Warsaw. The world stage looks completely different to a small country. Large global powers may ...