With contours softened by British architect Norman Foster, it might be a new symbol of reconciliation or sign of a new accelerating assertiveness, easier perhaps under a Red Green coalition than it would have been under Kohl.
One test of Berlin as the capital of Germany again is how it will respond to the fact that after the ethnic forced depopulation of Germans to the west at the end of the 2nd World War, it is on the economic borders of Germany rather than in the middle. It needs a policy for the major development of the Polish economy so that it becomes a genuine capital in central Europe.
Chris Burford
London