The scandal has destroyed his reputation as a leading European statesman and architect of German unification.
Largely as a result, she made a complete mess of German unification, appearing simultaneously sullen and impotent.
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The last time it managed it was with German unification in the 1990s when tax incentives promoted investment in eastern Germany.
German unification reduced Bavaria's share of Bundestag seats from 18% to 13%.
With German unification, the waterfront mansions acquired rich new occupants, many of them Wessis who saw the path as their private property.
Ms Rice can also claim credit for one distinct achievement: taking a firm line with the Soviet Union at the time of German unification.
But in contrast to its Western partners, who essentially paid for their own fear and lack of vision, Germany lent money for a concrete purpose: German unification.
You also argue that monetary union need not entail political union and that German unification would have worked better without the imposition of rigid labour markets on the East.
With German unification and the arrival in power of a new generation of leaders born after 1945, the French realise that Germany is shedding many of its former complexes, becoming more self-assured, assertive and nationalistic.
Patrick Salmon, the Foreign Office historian who compiled the volume of papers published on Friday as German Unification 1989-1990: Documents on British Policy Overseas Section III Volume VII, says Mrs Thatcher's trenchant objections made little practical difference.
"German-French ties under Mitterrand became a formative factor in the European unification process, " added German Finance Minister Theo Waigel.
It took over 18 years after unification for the East German rate to equal the, already extremely low, West German rate.
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So Mr Mitterrand gave way gracefully as the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl pressed more forcefully for unification.
But these reallocated galleries also facilitate the unification of the Northern paintings (German, Netherlandish, Dutch, Flemish), which had previously been disconnected.
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