Celebrations get underway today to mark the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist regime in what was then known as Czechoslovakia. Four years later the country split into the Czech and Slovak republics.
Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall fell, a painful symbol of division and clashes between East and West Europe. Today, Germany is a united and confident country. FRANCE 24 has a special report a week before the anniversary.
East Germany, June 16, 1953. The wall has not been completed, but Berlin is a divided city. Workers in East Berlin take to the streets in the first mass protest since the end of the war. Jacques Rupnik looks back.
Two decades after the Berlin Wall came down, an intangible divide remains between the two halves of the German capital. We take you on a tour of a city where the scars of the past are scarcely concealed.
Twenty years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of an era. Though the wall has largely vanished, its remains bear witness to the scars of the past. We take you on the trail of the wall that cut Berlin, and Europe, in half.
In this edition: Looking back at Vienna before the fall of the Berlin Wall, when the city’s geographical location made it a playground of Cold War politics, and France 24 examines Slovakia’s forgotten communist past.
South-east Asia is still counting its dead after a string of natural disasters stretching from Indonesia to Samoa and the Philippines. Also in our weekly round-up of the news in Asia: China celebrates the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic.
As Beijing celebrates the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the People’s Republic of China with a massive military parade through the city centre, we discuss the country's spectacular progress to the rank of global superpower.
