Markus Meckel is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party and was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2009. He grew up in East Germany, is an evangelical priest and has been a member of the opposition since the 1970s. In 1989, he helped found the Social Democratic Party and became its deputy chairman. He was the penultimate foreign minister of the German Democratic Republic and took part in the talks that led to German unification. Mr. Meckel sat down with CivilNet’s Stella Mehrabekyan at one of Berlin’s cafés. The discussion encompassed the evolution of German […]