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HELMUT KOHL EUROPEAN CEREMONY OF HONOUR
STRASBOURG, FRANCE
1 JULY, 2017

EU leaders and former heads of state from Europe and elsewhere will meet in Strasbourg on 1 July to pay tribute to the late German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, in the European Parliament.

Kohl died last Friday (16 June), aged 87, after a long illness which confined him to a wheelchair. He is credited with bringing East and West Germany together after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He is considered one of the major architects of Europe.

Maike Kohl-Richter, his widow, revealed after Kohl’s death that he wanted a “European state ceremony” in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. After the ceremony next week, his remains will be conveyed from the French border city along the Rhine to Speyer in Germany for a funeral mass in the city’s cathedral.

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