Showing courageous responsibility
Photo: photothek.net-Florian Gärtner
With the European anthem ringing in their ears and fireworks lighting up the night sky, complete strangers embraced each other. I joined hundreds of people back then, on May 1, 2004, on the Oder bridge between Frankfurt, in eastern Germany, and Słubice, in western Poland, in celebrating this special European moment.East and West were united...