(AP-ANSA) - BERLIN - Germany is celebrating the 28th
anniversary of the reunification of east and west, a process
that Chancellor Angela Merkel says still isn't complete. Germany
was reunited on Oct. 3, 1990 following more than four decades of
Cold War division, and less than a year after communist East
Germany opened its heavily fortified border. While much progress
has been made since, economic and other differences between east
and west still persist. The country's leaders are marking the
anniversary in a ceremony Wednesday at Berlin's Staatsoper opera
house. Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, said: "28 years
later, we know that what we call German unity is a process, a
long road." She said it's important for Germans to "listen to
each other." (AP-ANSA).
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