11.   Five years have elapsed since German unification but in the former communist frontier town of Hotensleben the Iron Curtain still hangs, decaying but intact.

12.   Following German unification, less than a year after the Wall came down, east Germany was absorbed into the European Union.

13.   From that post he was a major player in the negotiations over the NAFTA trade accord, and was architect of a key agreement involving German unification.

14.   German unification, which increased eastern wages much more rapidly than productivity, caused unemployment to soar.

15.   German unification remains unfinished business, bedeviled by a range of economic and psychological problems.

16.   German unification without German neutrality was a great Western achievement, but the economic toll was also great.

17.   Had Helmut Kohl filled a moving van and taken himself to Berlin right after German unification seven years ago, things might have been different.

18.   German unification proved expensive.

19.   It managed to drive the mark smoothly over the bumpy road of German unification.

20.   Kohl was the architect of German unification and is now the chief advocate of European integration.