EU, Austria mourn death of Otto Habsburg — EUbusiness - legal, business and economic news from Europe and the EU
An ardent anti-Communist, he also organised in August 1989 the now-famous "Pan-European picnic" in Sopron, Hungary, during which some 700 East Germans were able to escape to the West, just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
With his political activities, Habsburg "marked the European success story" and "made a central contribution to the opening of the Iron Curtain and the peaceful reunification of our continent that had been divided for too long", Barroso noted.
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