German Conservatives call for Ronald Reagan Street in Berlin

[Kellanved]

BERLIN - Germany's main conservative opposition Christian Democrats have called on Berlin city government to name a square or a street after former US Republican President Ronald Reagan, who died on the weekend.

"We should recognize his commitment to unification through a square or street near the Brandenburg Gate to be named after him," Germany's daily Bild Zeitung quoted CDU General Secretary Laurenz Meyer.

Reagan was president from 1981 and 1989 and had left office when communism imploded across Central Europe culminating in the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 and the in the historic unification of Germany less than a year later.

But in 1987 Reagan stood before the Berlin Wall at the city's Brandenburg Gate and called on then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall.''
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As usual the German conservatives know nothing about the laws in Berlin. A street may only be named after a person that has been dead for at least five years. And even then: the last call has the district Parliament - those tend to be very down-to-earth.
Anyway: the streets around the Gate are all named - I'm waiting for a proposal: do they want "Rabin Straße" (named in honor of Yitzhak Rabin ) ?, "Unter den Linden/Straße des 17. Juni"(commemorating the victims of the uprising in June 1953) ? "Pariser Platz"? "Ebert Straße" (commemorating the first German Democratic President)? ...
No thanks!


http://www.berlin.de/stadtplan/map.asp

[jmowreader]

1. I know just the street

It's not near the Brandenburger Tor and it's in East Berlin, but the perfect thing would be to name about a block of Mauerstrasse (Wall Street--the street that ran beside the East side of the Berlin Wall) "Ronald-Reagan-Allee."

They've left up a little hunk of the Wall as a monument. That's the block to name after him.

[ibegurpard]

2. I'll make a deal with them

They can namw as many streets after him as they want as long as he stays off our currency.

[mitchum]

3. How crooked is the street?

could be appropriate