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Merkel: Europe Will Only be Truly United with the Western Balkan Countries
German Chancellor attends the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain.
,,Europe will only be truly united when the Western Balkan countries become part of the European Union (EU).'' This is what German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, cited by BGNES.
Iron Curtain Anniversary No Picnic for German-Hungarian Relations
Memories of the peace demonstration that put a crack in the Iron Curtain on August 19, 1989 loom large in both German and Hungarian psyches — large enough to lure Merkel to Hungary for the first time in more than four years.