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President of Hungary Laszlo Solyom and President of Austria Heinz Fischer, center, and other guest look at passing by Trabants, icon of the former East Germany, during the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Iron Curtain at the former Sopronpuszta border crossing point (250 km/155 miles west of Budapest), Friday, June 26, 2009. In June 27, 1989 Hungarian Foreign Minister Gyula Horn and Austrian Foreign Minister Alois Mock cut-off the Iron Curtain, which physically and symbolically divided Easter Europe from the western part of the continent. Opening of the Iron Curtain in Hungary let East German citizens to cross the border towards Federal Republic of Germany and the event later assisted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of the two German states. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)