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Information board on the Wall behind the European Parliament, Brussels
© Jens Schöne
In 2001, considerations were being made in Berlin to display a segment of the Berlin Wall in Belgium. A section of the Wall had already been given to the European capital as a symbolic gesture from Berlin, but it remained in Germany. Only after a suitable site was found was it loaded onto a transporter on Potsdamer Platz and taken to Belgium.
The segment was presented to the public in Parc Léopold, Brussels, not far from the European Parliament on 22nd April 2004. It was presented to Michaele Schreyer (commissioner for the European Commission and former Senate of Berlin representative) on behalf of the German capital by André Schmitz (Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs). Michaele Schreyer had taken part in the memorable West Berlin senate assembly in “Rathaus Schöneberg” (Schöneberg City Hall) on 10th November 1989. Representing Belgium at the ceremony were Jacques Simonet (Minister-President of the Brussels Capital-Region) and Jos Chabert.