The falling of the Berlin Wall was truly a momentous occasion.

The fall of the Berlin Wall changed all that.

Of course, the fall of the house of Lehman Brothers has nothing to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the necessity that had been driving containment disappeared.

Since then, the symbol of the great revolution of 1989 has been the fall of the Berlin Wall.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, internal and external pressures eventually forced Kolingba to adopt the beginnings of a democratic approach.

The present crisis, the fall of Wall Street, is to neo liberalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was to communism.

Comparisons with the period immediately before the Berlin Wall came down are striking.

So the fall of the Berlin Wall less than half a decade later was a consequence of these thoughts.

The fall of the Berlin Wall brought hope and opportunity to people everywhere, and provided the 1980 s with a truly jubilant finale.

BERLIN Those who witnessed that night 20 years ago in Berlin, or elsewhere in Germany, will never forget what happened the night the Wall came down.

BRUSSELS Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the contours of world order remain in the making.

The third moment came after the Berlin Wall fell, and it was feared that an enlarged Germany might destabilize Europe.

Five months before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Czechoslovakia s Velvet Revolution, Poland had negotiated its way out of totalitarianism.

The years since the Berlin Wall came down have been rich in dramatic change, but the real era of upheaval lies ahead.

This process was already underway before the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the free market radicalism of the Thatcher Reagan era.

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, de Klerk called his cabinet together to debate legalising the ANC and freeing Mandela.

This picture definitely changed with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent break up of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.

The next few months will bring all sorts of commemorations of communism s end, particularly of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.

And now, exactly 20 years after the Berlin Wall came down, we are well into the third phase the debate over why the Cold War ended when it did and how it did.

So, fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world remains more in need of new thinking than ever.

Like the harnessing of electricity in our cities or the fall of the Berlin Wall, English represents hope for a better future a future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems.

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of an era of mistrust and division, and opened the way for cooperation aimed at a peaceful and stable Europe.

Wall Street has collapsed. The present crisis, the fall of Wall Street, is to neo liberalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was to communism.

PARIS When I heard the news about the assassination of the Russian politician Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, I was reminded of a conversation I once had with a Soviet dignitary before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and, more recently, the Arab Spring are clear examples of this dynamic.

From 1949 until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Consultative Group Coordinating Committee (Cocom) monitored and controlled the export of Western technology to the Soviet Union.

Indeed, some now wonder if the recent financial crisis has done to liberal capitalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall did to communism.

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the resilience of the post Cold War security system in Europe is being tested.

NEW DELHI By marking the Cold War s end and the looming collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago transformed global geopolitics.

The fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, surprisingly accepted by Mikhail Gorbachev, meant immediate and direct support in reconstructing East Germany s institutions and economy.

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, countries in Central and Eastern Europe are at varying stages of meeting the challenges in their transition from socialist to market based economies.

Unlike the European Community s support for Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the tragedy for the Arab world is the absence of a useful blueprint for institutional reform and the resources to implement it.

NEW YORK Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world is facing another stark choice between two fundamentally different forms of organization international capitalism and state capitalism.

For Asia, the most important consequence of the fall of the Berlin Wall was that the collapse of communism produced a shift from the primacy of military power to economic power in shaping the international order.

That is, assuming they survive at all since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russian male life expectancy has plummeted from 65 years to around 60 years.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, former communist European countries were able to accede to the Council of Europe, which now comprises 47 states in Europe.

Although the Arab Spring s historic significance was initially likened to that of the fall of the Berlin Wall, mounting concern about the Muslim Brotherhood s increasing political influence is overshadowing the positive potential of change in the region.

In Germany, the 102,000 Jews registered with the Jewish community are a slowly declining population, despite the immigration of tens of thousands of Jews from the former Soviet Union since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The euro, according to this view, was devised in a fit of giddy and irresponsible optimism or, alternatively, panic at the prospect of German hegemony over Europe in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

They committed suicide the following day, 30 April, two days before the surrender of Berlin to the Soviets on 2 May, and just over a week before the end of World War II in Europe on 8 May.

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