Not too long ago, the Swiss voted in a
referendum to limit immigration and make it easier to expel foreign-born
residents. The specifics of the vote matter less than the sentiment it
reflects, in Switzerland and Europe generally, feelings exemplified in
an otherwise insignificant incident in the small Swiss city of Nyon.
Author of Thirty Tomorrows: The Next
Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Live and Senior
economist and market strategist for Lord, Abbett & Co.
Common for Wenders' approach to both
film and photography, is the starting point in painting and in
particular the concept of frames. He considers the frame to be the
defining factor -- if it is not in the frame, then it is out: "The frame
is the main act."
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For most Americans, the fall of the
Berlin Wall remains the iconic image of the changes that took place in
East-Central Europe 25 years ago. Just look at how the U.S. media has
been covering the anniversary of 1989.
Director, Foreign Policy In Focus
I stared at the pieces of the Wall.
Twenty-five marks for a small piece of cement with remnants of
spray-paint on it. I wanted to celebrate freedom and I wanted to have a
little piece of something that had meant so much to me.
American conductor, educator, and producer
"Do what nobody else can do except for you." Such is the unflagging
advice from German filmmaker Wim Wenders, who in this video gives us his
take on...
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New York's adopted street art brothers
Icy & Sot have been spreading their wings in Brooklyn for a couple
of years since we first interviewed them upo...
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The cost of that economic and political reunification
was shouldered almost entirely by West Germans while the benefits
flowed mostly to the East Germans. Economist Rudiger Frank has a
different view of what happened in those years.
Director, Foreign Policy In Focus
Though Berlin is one of Europe's most
diverse and progressive cities, it doesn't take long for a foreign
visitor to start to feel like they're partaking in a form of gloom
tourism. Should we visit the Stasi Museum or the Holocaust Memorial? The
Oranienburgerstrasse Synagogue or the Reichstag?
This 'busy-means-high-status effect' is not just a
recent development driven by mounting pressures due to rising
individualism, technology and connectivity.
PhD Researcher in Behavioral Economics at Columbia Business School
Active engagement in public life is the
most meaningful way to honor those we have lost, in my case my
grandparents, my parents and my husband -- who did so much to fight the
bullies and the demagogues on the world stage -- all the while putting
up with a feisty Hungarian wife for 17 years.
Reporter, writer, human rights advocate
While Eastern Europe shrugged off the
long embrace of the Kremlin, Fidel Castro screamed from the dais,
promising in the name of everybody that we would never give up.
Award-winning Cuban blogger
In early April 1945, my father was
packed into a train with 2500 other prisoners from Bergen-Belsen as the
Nazis insanely tried to keep British and Am...
Author, reviewer, and blogger
Though the Wende, or "Change," freed the East German
people from over forty years of Stalinist dictatorship, remembering the
forgotten side of German unification -- when right-wing hooligans waged
thousands of attacks on defenseless foreigners -- provides a cautionary
tale of failed leadership.
Writer, communications expert, writing a novel set in reunifying Berlin
Many historians trace the seeds of the momentous
events of November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, as being
planted back in August 1975 when 35 nations, including the United
States, unanimously approved the Helsinki Accords.
Professor, historian, author
Thousands of people were waiting for us at the
airport, a sea of black-red-golden flags fluttering in the cold December
wind in between an almost forgotten white-green flag of the Saxon
State. Once the plane had taxied to a standstill, I climbed down the
escalator and saw Hans Modrow, who was awaiting me about 10 meters away
from the steps with a blank expression on his face. I then turned around
to tell the Minister of the Chancellery Rudolf Seiters: "It's done."
Former Chancellor of Germany
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