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		<title>Dalla Sassonia-Anhalt, uno shock per tutta la politica tedesca</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrea Muratore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="1920" height="1116" src="https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/germania-1.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Germania" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/germania-1.jpg 1920w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/germania-1-300x174.jpg 300w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/germania-1-1024x595.jpg 1024w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/germania-1-768x446.jpg 768w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/germania-1-1536x893.jpg 1536w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/germania-1-600x349.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" /></p>
<p>Lo shock della Sassonia-Anhalt e lo schiaffo alla politica centrale di Berlino arriva in una fase decisiva per la Germania.</p>
<p>L'articolo <a href="https://it.insideover.com/politica/dalla-sassonia-anhalt-uno-shock-per-tutta-la-politica-tedesca.html">Dalla Sassonia-Anhalt, uno shock per tutta la politica tedesca</a> proviene da <a href="https://it.insideover.com">InsideOver</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img width="1920" height="1116" src="https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/germania-1.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Germania" decoding="async" srcset="https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/germania-1.jpg 1920w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/germania-1-300x174.jpg 300w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/germania-1-1024x595.jpg 1024w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/germania-1-768x446.jpg 768w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/germania-1-1536x893.jpg 1536w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/germania-1-600x349.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" /></p>
<p>Il voto della <a href="https://it.insideover.com/nazionalismi/ciclone-afd-in-sassonia-anhalt-travolta-la-cdu-un-messaggio-forte-per-merz.html" type="post" id="528734"><strong>Sassonia-Anhalt,</strong> che ha portato attorno al 44% la destra di <strong>Alternative fur Deutschland</strong>, </a>facendole segnare il miglior risultato in uno dei Lander della Germania, ha prodotto un risultato politico commentato su scala europea e globale con grande attenzione. L&#8217;elezione per il <strong>Landtag di Magdeburgo</strong> e il<a href="https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/09/07/comment-lafd-est-devenu-un-parti-de-masse-en-allemagne/"> boom del partito di Alice Weidel</a> e del candidato ministro-presidente <strong>Ulrich Siegmund</strong> hanno portato in riemersione le faglie tra le periferie della Germania e d&#8217;Europa e i grandi centri produttivi e mostrato la rilevanza elettorale di una nuova ondata nazional-populista che anche nella prima economia del Vecchio Continente acquisisce impulso.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Cosa farà ora Afd?</h2>



<p>Il dilemma è ora aperto: cosa fare col boom di Afd? <strong>Mentre la sinistra sovranista di Bsw</strong>, entrata nel parlamento di Magdeburgo, offre margini di collaborazione tematici, Siegmund apre al confronto con gli altri partiti ma accarezza l&#8217;idea di <strong>un secondo voto per conquistare la maggioranza assoluta</strong>. La parola d&#8217;ordine dell&#8217;Afd in Sassonia-Anhalt è <a href="https://www.volksstimme.de/wahl/landtagswahl-sachsen-anhalt/afd-ulrich-siegmund-koalition-bsw-regierung-4315656">&#8220;maggioranza stabile&#8221;, l&#8217;obiettivo di Siegmund secondo il <em>Volksstimme </em>di Magdeburgo. </a>Come ottenerla? Dalla possibilità di una sostanziale astensione dal voto della Bsw nell&#8217;elezione del ministro-presidente alla tentazione del ritorno alle urne per sbancare, le trattative dovranno far capire quale strategia potrebbe essere percorribile per una svolta potenzialmente storica.</p>



<p><strong>L&#8217;Afd vuole accedere, su scala locale, alla stanza dei bottoni</strong> per iniziare a implementare un programma fortemente nazionalista, che per quanto riguarda la Sassonia-Anhalt comprende molte proposte, soprattutto su asilo e immigrazione, difficilmente implementabili in un singolo Land. <a href="https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/afd-regierungsoptionen-bsw-sachsen-anhalt-wahl-100.html">ZdfHeute segnala che Wagenknecht</a>, la capa del partito a cui lei stessa dà il nome, ha indicato quattro punti potenziali di cooperazione con Afd: &#8220;un cambio di rotta nella politica energetica, la fine delle sanzioni contro la Russia, un&#8217;istruzione migliore e una riforma fondamentale del servizio pubblico radiotelevisivo&#8221;. Il Rubicone (o l&#8217;Elba, per ragioni geografiche) è pronto ad essere attraversato e l&#8217;Afd appare a un passo dal poter incidere concretamente su un&#8217;agenda di governo. Come, in che misura e con che prospettive, però, andrà ancora definito. Ma che questo dato di fatto, escluso anche in passato dove (come in Turingia nel 2024) i Lander avevano premiato elettoralmente i sovranisti senza la maggioranza assoluta, abbia già cambiato la politica tedesca, è <strong><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/turning-point-for-country-german-mainstream-reels-after-huge-far-right-afd-win/">difficile da negare.</a></strong></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">I dilemmi della Cdu di Merz</h2>



<p>Nel mentre, la Cdu popolare e conservatrice del cancelliere Friedrich Merz e del Ministro-Presidente uscente Sven Schulze si interroga sul suo prossimo futuro. <a href="https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/friedrich-merz-zu-sachsen-anhalt-cdu-in-grundfesten-erschuettert-6a9e8aeb240b302c8a83c0df">La Bild cita le parole che il cancelliere avrebbe rivolto </a>ai suoi, parlando di un partito &#8220;scosso alle fondamenta&#8221; e aggiungendo che &#8220;non possiamo semplicemente tornare alla normalità come se nulla fosse, né io, né il governo federale&#8221;, che la Spd condivide con il Partito Socialdemocratico (Spd). <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/friedrich-merz-was-die-cdu-pleite-in-sachsen-anhalt-fuer-ihn-bedeutet-a-f3665b2c-2c2d-4936-88e9-e37921544a4d"><em>Der Spiegel</em> </a>evidenzia che un Merz &#8220;sorprendentemente autocritico&#8221;, come è apparso la sera di lunedì in conferenza stampa, veda ora traballare il suo ruolo di governo.</p>



<p>La linea di principio della Cdu resta netta: <strong>nessuna collaborazione con Afd, </strong>che è un fattore sempre più ingombrante nella politica tedesca e condiziona l&#8217;agenda dell&#8217;esecutivo. Ma la strategia va declinata nella tattica e ora cosa farà la sezione di Magdeburgo della formazione conservatrice? Cercherà un difficile barrage con la cooperazione con altre forze? O sfiderà sul piano del governo la formazione di Weidel? Dalla <strong>Baviera il governatore Markus Soder,</strong> leader del partito-gemello della Cdu, la Csu, ha, <a href="https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article6a9555d4ec27d32fb526a8ea/wahl-in-sachsen-anhalt-bericht-ueber-brisante-merz-reaktion-koennen-nicht-zur-tagesordnung-uebergehen-auch-ich-nicht-liveticker.html">come riporta Die Welt, i</a>nvitato l&#8217;Afd a dimostrare di sapersi dimostrare all&#8217;altezza del governo in un Land dove la Cdu ha preso solo il 18%, staccatissima dai sovranisti.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Dalla Baviera la sfida di Soder a Afd</h2>



<p>&#8220;Non cercate di imporre la maggioranza con ogni mezzo, usando ogni trucco possibile&#8221;, così si è espresso Soder, aggiungendo: &#8220;Lasciate che dimostrino se sono in grado di governare; io ho i miei dubbi&#8221;. Una <strong>sfida netta, a cui Soder</strong> ha aggiunto, con orgoglio, che la Baviera non passerà nelle mani dei sovranisti. Un &#8220;¡No pasarán!&#8221; in salsa tedesca che non viene da un esponente progressista ma da un leader conservatore del campo <strong>popolare </strong>che prova a sfidare sul piano pragmatico i nazional-sovranisti, con l&#8217;obiettivo di capire se un&#8217;eventuale esperienza di amministrazione metterà oltre un decennio di propaganda alla prova della realtà, anche se solo su scala locale. </p>



<p><strong>Parole come quelle di Soder</strong> mostrano che la percezione della problematica è chiara e che la diagnosi è in elaborazione: il voto in Sassonia-Anhalt non ha riguardato solo quel Land ma è stato anche un <strong>termometro della </strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/german-chancellor-friedrich-merz-cdu-afd-saxony-anhalt"><strong>sfiducia crescente</strong> verso il governo Merz</a>. Più che le equazioni elettorali a Magdeburgo, è una svolta a Berlino (dove ad oggi un debole Merz non sembra in via di avvicendamento) a dover essere nel focus del partito di governo.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Il futuro incerto della politica tedesca</h2>



<p>La linea della Cdu-Csu di ammissione della sconfitta e di reazione mira a interrogarsi su come <strong>i consensi possano essere passati all&#8217;Afd</strong> provando ad evitare il rischio di demonizzare da un lato la svolta nazionalista di una parte di Paese che ha scelto un partito trasversale nel dominare in molte fasce dell&#8217;elettorato e di creare, dall&#8217;altro, un precedente dando margini di cooperazione a una formazione che appare ormai lo spauracchio numero uno. </p>



<p>Parliamo di una sfida decisiva per un partito che dall&#8217;era della ricostruzione postbellica con Konrad Adenaeur a quella della riunificazione con Helmuth Kohl ha guidato il Paese nelle grandi fasi di transizione della sua storia contemporanea e ora deve affrontare il <strong>trapasso di modello geoeconomico della Germania, la crisi industriale, lo shock energetico della rottura con la Russia</strong> e il tema della perdita di competitività dell&#8217;Europa su scala globale dovendo gestire, parimenti, una frattura politica interna.</p>



<p><strong>Lo shock della Sassonia-Anhalt</strong> e lo schiaffo alla politica centrale di Berlino arrivano in una fase decisiva per la Germania stessa e inaugurano un settembre caldo dove, il 20 di questo mese, Merz dovrà affrontare altri due voti, quello in <strong>Meclemburgo-Pomerania Anteriore e quello a Berlino</strong>. Test importanti per analizzare in che misura l&#8217;ondata dell&#8217;Afd e il calo generalizzato della Cdu potranno essere considerati invertibili o destinati a divenire un trend strutturale. Nella fase più incerta della Repubblica Federale post-unificazione e nell&#8217;ora più critica per l&#8217;Europa post-1945, una Germania in crisi politica sarebbe un elemento destinato a condizionare l&#8217;intero Vecchio Continente. E ogni evoluzione andrà analizzata da vicino.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"> Fonti</h2>



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<li><em>„CDU in Grundfesten erschüttert“</em>, Bild, 7 settembre 2026 &#8211; <a href="https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/friedrich-merz-zu-sachsen-anhalt-cdu-in-grundfesten-erschuettert-6a9e8aeb240b302c8a83c0df">https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/friedrich-merz-zu-sachsen-anhalt-cdu-in-grundfesten-erschuettert-6a9e8aeb240b302c8a83c0df</a></li>



<li><em>Kann sich Merz noch halten? In der CDU bezweifelt das manch einer,</em> Der Spiegel, 7 settembre 2026 &#8211; <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/friedrich-merz-was-die-cdu-pleite-in-sachsen-anhalt-fuer-ihn-bedeutet-a-f3665b2c-2c2d-4936-88e9-e37921544a4d">https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/friedrich-merz-was-die-cdu-pleite-in-sachsen-anhalt-fuer-ihn-bedeutet-a-f3665b2c-2c2d-4936-88e9-e37921544a4d</a></li>



<li>„Wir können nicht zur Tagesordnung übergehen, auch ich nicht“ – Bericht über brisante Merz-Reaktion, Die Welt, 7 settembre 2026 &#8211; <a href="https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article6a9555d4ec27d32fb526a8ea/wahl-in-sachsen-anhalt-bericht-ueber-brisante-merz-reaktion-koennen-nicht-zur-tagesordnung-uebergehen-auch-ich-nicht-liveticker.html">https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article6a9555d4ec27d32fb526a8ea/wahl-in-sachsen-anhalt-bericht-ueber-brisante-merz-reaktion-koennen-nicht-zur-tagesordnung-uebergehen-auch-ich-nicht-liveticker.html</a></li>



<li>Ulrich Siegmund sucht eine stabile Mehrheit, Volksstimme, 7 settembre 2026 &#8211; <em><a href="https://www.volksstimme.de/wahl/landtagswahl-sachsen-anhalt/afd-ulrich-siegmund-koalition-bsw-regierung-4315656">https://www.volksstimme.de/wahl/landtagswahl-sachsen-anhalt/afd-ulrich-siegmund-koalition-bsw-regierung-4315656</a></em></li>



<li>AfD lotet Optionen aus &#8211; und das BSW reagiert, ZDF Heute, 7 settembre 2026 &#8211; <a href="https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/afd-regierungsoptionen-bsw-sachsen-anhalt-wahl-100.html">https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/afd-regierungsoptionen-bsw-sachsen-anhalt-wahl-100.html</a></li>



<li>‘Turning point for our country’: German mainstream reels after huge far-right win, Politico.eu, 7 settembre 2026 &#8211; <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/turning-point-for-country-german-mainstream-reels-after-huge-far-right-afd-win/">https://www.politico.eu/article/turning-point-for-country-german-mainstream-reels-after-huge-far-right-afd-win/</a></li>



<li>Comment l’AfD est devenu un parti de masse en Allemagne, Le Grand Continent, 7 settembre 2026 &#8211; <a href="https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/09/07/comment-lafd-est-devenu-un-parti-de-masse-en-allemagne/">https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/09/07/comment-lafd-est-devenu-un-parti-de-masse-en-allemagne/</a></li>



<li>German chancellor vows to stay in office despite AfD triumph in state election, The Guardian, 7 settembre 2026 &#8211; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/german-chancellor-friedrich-merz-cdu-afd-saxony-anhalt">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/german-chancellor-friedrich-merz-cdu-afd-saxony-anhalt</a></li>
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<p>L'articolo <a href="https://it.insideover.com/politica/dalla-sassonia-anhalt-uno-shock-per-tutta-la-politica-tedesca.html">Dalla Sassonia-Anhalt, uno shock per tutta la politica tedesca</a> proviene da <a href="https://it.insideover.com">InsideOver</a>.</p>
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		<title>Against All Odds: the Two Plus Four Agreement and Germany&#8217;s Reunification</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas O. Falk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2020 07:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="1920" height="1479" src="https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LP_3621727-scaled.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LP_3621727-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LP_3621727-300x231.jpg 300w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LP_3621727-1024x789.jpg 1024w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LP_3621727-768x592.jpg 768w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LP_3621727-1536x1183.jpg 1536w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LP_3621727-2048x1577.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" /></p>
<p>September 12 marked the thirtieth anniversary of one of the most significant moments in modern German history. In the Two Plus Four Agreement, the Four Powers renounced all rights they held in Germany, allowing Germany to reunite and become fully sovereign the following year. However, Germany&#8217;s reunification did not occur without European reservations. The Treaty &#8230; <a href="https://it.insideover.com/war/against-all-odds-the-two-plus-four-agreement-and-germanys-reunification.html">[...]</a></p>
<p>L'articolo <a href="https://it.insideover.com/war/against-all-odds-the-two-plus-four-agreement-and-germanys-reunification.html">Against All Odds: the Two Plus Four Agreement and Germany&#8217;s Reunification</a> proviene da <a href="https://it.insideover.com">InsideOver</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img width="1920" height="1479" src="https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LP_3621727-scaled.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LP_3621727-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LP_3621727-300x231.jpg 300w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LP_3621727-1024x789.jpg 1024w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LP_3621727-768x592.jpg 768w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LP_3621727-1536x1183.jpg 1536w, https://media.insideover.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LP_3621727-2048x1577.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" /></p><p>September 12 marked the thirtieth anniversary of one of the most significant moments in modern German history. In the Two Plus Four Agreement, the Four Powers renounced all rights they held in Germany, allowing Germany to reunite and become fully sovereign the following year. However, Germany&#8217;s reunification did not occur without European reservations.</p>
<h2>The Treaty on Final Settlement</h2>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The Treaty on the Final Settlement with respect to Germany &#8211; also known as the </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Two Plus Four Agreement &#8211; was signed in Moscow on September 12, 1990. It was an epochal day for Germany. The signatures resulted in nothing less than the end of the occupation of the four victorious powers of the Second World War in Germany but simultaneously overcoming the division of Europe and, thus, the end of the Cold War, whose front line ran right through Germany. </span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Ronald Reagan&#8217;s military build-up in the US and Gorbachev&#8217;s perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union had created the conditions for what appeared inconceivable for more than four decades: representatives of the two German states and the four victorious powers sat down at one Table and established a consensus.</span></p>
<h2>Skepticism About German Reunification</h2>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Early in 1990, considerable reservations still existed about Germany&#8217;s reunification, especially in France and Great Britain, had still existed. The latter became apparent when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared indignantly at a meeting of the heads of government of the European Community in the presence of Helmut Kohl that the Germans had been &#8220;beaten twice&#8221; but had now returned, nonetheless. </span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">In February 1990, at the beginning of the Two Plus Four negotiations, she warned again that Germany would dominate Europe in the future. The French President François Mitterand also registered with a particular fear of what was occurring in the neighboring country. However, unlike Thatcher, he never opposed the German reunification ab initio. </span></p>
<h2>Kohl&#8217;s Strong Relationships With Foreign Leaders</h2>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">However, what worked in Germany&#8217;s favor was a significant relationship between Germany&#8217;s Chancellor Helmut Kohl (CDU), Gorbachev, and President George H.W. Bush. Particularly Bush has been widely considered as one of the premier architects of Germany&#8217;s reunification. </span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States decided on the format two-plus-four in Ottawa at the beginning of February 1990. The aim was to regulate &#8220;the foreign aspects of German unity, including questions of the security of the neighboring states with both German states&#8221;. The first round of negotiations between the six states began in Bonn in May, followed by others in East Berlin and Paris in the summer and finally in Moscow in September.</span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The decisive issue was the final recognition of the Oder-Neisse border between Germany and Poland, the extensive withdrawal of the Allied forces from Germany, the waiver of the victorious powers of their reservation rights, and the restoration of Germany&#8217;s full sovereignty under international law. In addition, the future membership of a united Germany, the strength of its army, and security guarantees for the neighboring states played a role.</span></p>
<h2>The Final Treaty</h2>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The treaty ultimately comprised ten articles in which united Germany recognizes its current borders and undertakes not to raise any territorial claims and forego nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and reduce the Bundeswehr to a maximum of 370,000 soldiers. At the same time, Germany, the GDR, and the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw all Soviet armed forces by the end of 1994.</span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Finally, Article 7 contains what is probably the most important passage: the termination of all occupation rights and responsibilities of the Allies in Germany that have existed since the end of the war in 1945 and the dissolution of their institutions. The latter enabled East Germany, which belonged to the eastern military alliance &#8220;Warsaw Pact,&#8221; to become a NATO member in unified Germany, just as the Federal Republic of Germany.</span></p>
<h2>Not Officially a &#8220;Peace Treaty&#8221;</h2>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">While the Two Plus Four Agreement is essentially a peace treaty, the governments of both German states avoided this designation at all costs, as the negotiations with all 60 opponents of National Socialist Germany in World War II would have resulted in extensive reparation claims.</span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">After only six months, the foreign ministers of both German states and the four allies signed the agreement on September 12, 1990, in Moscow. The Allies immediately suspended their rights; on October 2, the treaty was also presented to the CSCE states, who took note of it &#8220;with great satisfaction.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The way to German unity was formally sealed on October 3 – which, to this day, is celebrated as a public holiday. </span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">However, the treaty only came into force six months later on March 15, 1991. The Soviet Union was the last of the six signatory countries to ratify the agreement, just in time for the coup against Gorbachev in the summer and against a volatile mood in the Soviet Union against reunification of Germany. </span></p>
<p>This day and the efforts of the parties involved to bring about German reunification will be remembered forever not only in Germany but all over the world.</p>
<p>L'articolo <a href="https://it.insideover.com/war/against-all-odds-the-two-plus-four-agreement-and-germanys-reunification.html">Against All Odds: the Two Plus Four Agreement and Germany&#8217;s Reunification</a> proviene da <a href="https://it.insideover.com">InsideOver</a>.</p>
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