For another perspective, our group also met with Daniel Neun, a rock musician who was one of the organizers of a small rally last Friday in front of the Reichstag, the German Parliament. (…)
This gave us a firsthand look at how the government and the citizenry are both working to make political and civil rights really work in Germany, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 that eventually led to German reunification, and my own conclusion is that German democracy is very strong even as a number of countries in the continent are reeling from economic turbulence.