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20years Unification Treaty or as a state was settled




pension schemes, ownership, capital issue, Anthem: Much has long been controversial, even in the unified Germany. Also, because the speakers at the ceremony reminded to 20 years in the Unification Treaty. But above all it was, as Chancellor Merkel stressed that celebrate the "victory of freedom."




harmonic organization or inevitable connection - this debate about the nature of the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic also moved by the ceremony in Berlin's Crown Prince's Palace. Here 20 years ago, the Unification Treaty signed - from the West-Interior Minister and the Secretary of State for East Guenther Krause.




No Accession Treaty, but contractual agreement or settlement agreement yet?


And today's Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere (CDU) in 1990 was involved in the integration process - as an adviser to the last East German Prime Minister. For him, the settlement agreement is unprecedented: "The contract was the result of a historically unique negotiations he was not an accession treaty, but a real unification treaty.." De Maizière made but also points out that there were violent clashes at the time - over the capital issue, federalism, the abortion law, the Stasi files. In addition, there were property disputes and the problem: If the East German text "Rising from Ruins" also find themselves in the anthem of the new Germany?




for me it was both sowol a settlement agreement and a settlement agreement!
the only good thing about it was the will of the people was fulfilled!




Germany had a bit to take more must


Today we know that Germany could take over from the East may not have the hymn text, but still a bit more than the Little Green Man or the Green Arrow "on. any case, says the former negotiator and current Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, it had happened in 1990 very fair.
but what I always notice when I go in the east of Germany, the people have not experienced the GDR, are very friendly and helpful towards me. something you can not write into a contract, but I hope that it will live a long time!




In the end, the Crown Prince's Palace Berlin unveiled a plaque and played the national anthem - in the West final valid version.




to read the agreement contract (external link)