Merkel: Reunification of Germany is ‘not a finished process’

Merkel: Reunification of Germany is ‘not a finished process’
Angela Merkel has said that German reunification is not complete ‘mentally and structurally’ (Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA)

Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germans must keep working for democracy, as the country celebrated the 31st anniversary of the merger of East and West.

In what is expected to be one of her last major speeches, the outgoing chancellor said that reunification happened “because there were people in East Germany who risked everything for their rights, their freedom and a different society”.

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