[Stateside Twins' Eyeshot] Visions of Things to Be

The political crisis that followed the Hungarian events led to GDR's first free elections on March 18, 1990 and to the negotiations between the GDR and FRG culminated in a Unification Treaty,[1] whilst negotiations between the GDR and FRG and the four occupying powers produced the so-called "Two Plus Four Treaty" (Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany) granting full sovereignty to a unified German state, whose two halves had previously still been bound by a number of limitations stemming from its post-WWII-status as an occupied nation. The united Germany remained a member of the European Community (later the European Union) and of NATO