Outside the European Museum Schengen, dedicated to the eponymous 1985 agreement in which France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands promised to dismantle their internal borders, stand two sections of the Berlin Wall. The thirteen-foot-high blocks, one of which bears the portrait of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, symbolize the agreement’s commitment to ensuring freedom of […]

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