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.

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

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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