German Chancellor Angela Merkel posing for a selfie with a man as she attends a ceremony in Frankfurt yesterday to mark the 25th anniversary since the reunification of East and West Germany. The silver anniversary of the day communist East Germany and the capitalist West reunited as one country comes with Europe’s top economy standing at a crossroads. Chancellor Merkel and President Joachim Gauck, both of whom grew up under communism, attended ceremonies in the business capital Frankfurt with the resonant slogan “Overcoming Borders”. In the keynote speech, Gauck focused on the refugee crisis and called on Germans to recapture the same can-do spirit that gripped the country in the heady months between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the remarriage of east and west.
