A rare âmedicaneâ formed in the Mediterranean Sea and is producing strong winds and rain in southeast France. Tropical storm Sean could become a hurricane.
On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain speech to a crowd of more than 40,000 people. The speech was named by Churchill, The Sinews of Peace, and changed the way the democratic West viewed the Communist East.
In 1986 the European flag began to be used by the Community and the Single European Act was signed. The Iron Curtain's fall enabled eastward enlargement. (Berlin Wall). In 1990, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the former East Germany became part of the Community as part of a newly united Germany.