GERMANY: GERMANS AND POLES CROSS INTO EACH OTHERS COUNTRIES AS POLAND BECOMES PART OF EUROPEAN UNION.

Record ID: 646777

  • Title: GERMANY: GERMANS AND POLES CROSS INTO EACH OTHERS COUNTRIES AS POLAND BECOMES PART OF EUROPEAN UNION.
  • Date: 1st May 2004
  • Summary: (U1) USEDOM, GERMANY (APRIL 30 - MAY 1, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. TV: BORDER CROSSING 0.04 2. GV: PEOPLE ON POLISH SIDE OF USEDOM ISLAND LOOKING INTO GERMANY 0.10 3. CU: EUROPEAN AND POLISH FLAGS FLYING 0.13 4. TILT DOWN/MCU: GERMAN BORDER GUARD CHECKING PEDESTRIANS; BORDER GUARDS CHECKING PASSPORTS (2 SHOTS) 0.26 6. MV: POLISH BORDER GUARDS WATCHING PEDESTRIANS WALKING INTO GERMANY 0.37 7. (SOUNDBITE) (German) PETER MEYER, PIANO PLAYER OF THE BAND "THE PUHDYS" SAYING: "There have been a lot of highlights in the past, also political highlights -- I'm thinking of the fall of the Berlin Wall -- but the EU enlargement is something very special." 0.52 8. LV: STAGE 0.58 9. VARIOUS: AUDIENCE LISTENING AND SYMBOLICALLY HOLDING HANDS; LITTLE GIRL WATCHING; "THE PUHDYS" CONCERT IN PROGRESS; FAN CLAPPING; LITTLE BOY LISTENING; BAND MEMBER SINGING; PETER MEYER SINGING AND PAN TO PIANO; WIDE OF STAGE (11 SHOTS) 2.01 10. GV: BORDER GUARDS REMOVING CRASH BARRIERS SHORTLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT 2.13 11. LV: CROWDS ON POLISH SIDE WAITING BEHIND BARRIER 2.18 12. MCU;BORDER GUARD TAKING PICTURES 2.21 13. LV/GV: ACROBAT WITH POLISH FLAG ON TIGHTROPE; PAN FROM DESERTED BORDER GUARD HOUSES TO FERRIS WHEEL IN BACK; ACROBATS ON TIGHT ROPE (4 SHOTS) 2.53 14. LAS: ACROBAT HOLDING EU FLAG AS FIREWORKS GO OFF (2 SHOTS) 3.11 15. LAS/GV/CU: SPECTATORS WATCHING; MAN WITH TWO WOMEN WATCHING FIREWORKS; FIREWORKS GOING OFF (4 SHOTS) 3.38 16. GV/MV: POLISH PEOPLE ENTERING GERMANY AT STROKE OF MIDNIGHT (2 SHOTS) 4.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th May 2004 13:00
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  • Location: USEDOM, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA7O1DNXUD08P667KFEBTB2843V
  • Story Text: Some 12,000 Germans and Poles have crossed into each
    others countries on the Baltic Sea peninsula of Usedom as
    Poland joined the European Union at the struck of midnight.



    Hundreds of Poles waited at the German-Polish border
    until barriers symbolically went up at midnight (2200 GMT)
    on Friday night (April 30) when people streamed to the
    German side of the Usedom island. One of the evening's
    highlights was a performance by the rock band "The Puhdys",
    founded in East Germany in 1965 and is still a hit with
    many former East Germans.

    "There have been a lot of highlights in the past, also
    political highlights -- I'm thinking of the fall of the
    Berlin Wall -- but the EU enlargement is something very
    special," Puhdys singer and piano player Peter Meyer said.

    Usedom, in former East Germany's most northeastern
    part, is a popular tourist area, especially in the summer.

    Eight former communist countries and two Mediterranean
    islands joined the European Union on Saturday (May 1) in a
    historic reunification of western and eastern Europe, 15
    years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Poland, Hungary,
    Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia,
    Lithuania, Cyprus and Malta officially joined the EU at
    midnight central European time (2200 GMT). This biggest
    ever enlargement makes the new 25-member EU the worlds most
    powerful single trading bloc with 450 million citizens
    producing nearly one quarter of global wealth.



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