20 years on, Germany’s reunification is still a work in progress

>Kirsten Grieshaber reports from Berlin as leader Angela Merkel reveals an old habit of hoarding food.

ANGELA MERKEL, the leader of Europe’s richest country, still hoards food.

That’s how much power Cold War-era habits still hold over Germans like Merkel who grew up in the communist east, a full two decades after reunification.

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