New 'Berlin Wall': Warnings of EU north-south split
- Published: 23 Aug 2012 at 19.48
- Online news: World
European ministers warned Thursday that the debt crisis risks splitting Europe between north and south in an echo of the east-west division of the Cold War, as pressure mounted on Greece.
The remains of the Berlin Wall pictured on the Bernauer Strasse on August 12. European ministers warned Thursday that the debt crisis risks splitting Europe between north and south in an echo of the east-west division of the Cold War, as pressure mounted on Greece.
"Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new split threatens to divide our continent, this time between north and south," the foreign ministers of Germany and the three Baltic states said in joint statement released in Lithuania.
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