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Europe said goodbye to Helmut Kole - the author of the reunion of Germany
About one and a half thousand people were present at the Panicid and the funeral of the former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kolya in the Cathedral of Shpeir.
According to the last will of the deceased, he is buried right in the cathedral, in which the bodies of several rulers of the Holy Roman Empire rest and which Helmut considered to consider the unity of Europe.
The coffin with the body of the deceased was delivered to the Rhine to Shpayer from the hometown of ex-chancellor Ludwigshafen-on-Raine.
Before that, a pan -European farewell ceremony with a statesman was held in the European parliament in Strasbourg (France) - the first in the history of the European Union. Dozens of current and former world leaders, EU leaders gathered. At the invitation of the family of the deceased, the widow of the first president of Russia Naina Yeltsin flew flew. The First President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev could not attend the ceremony for medical reasons.
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0:00 0:00:50 Download the media fileThe ceremony was ex-president Bill Clinton, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Junker, head of the European Council Donald Tusk, European Parliament Chairman Antonio Tayani, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and others.
Helmut Kohl died on June 16 at the 88th year of his life. He headed the government for the longest in the history of the country - from 1982 to 1998 - and played a decisive role in the reunification of Germany.