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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9958

20 August 2009
(eu) eu/commemoration
EU remembers historical picnic at Sopron

Brussels, 19/08/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 19 August 2009, several European leaders met in Sopron, Hungary, to commemorate a decisive moment in the fall of the Iron Curtain. 20 years earlier, on 19 August 1989, hundreds of Europeans from either side of the Iron Curtain met for a picnic in this town on the border with Austria, for several hours opening up a passage between the two countries. This symbolic and decisive event marked "the beginning of the end of the division of Europe...