Former US president George Bush (R) shares a laugh with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the "Pariser Platz" in front of the Brandenburg Gate during the opening ceremony for the new US embassy building (not seen on picture) in Berlin on July 4, 2008. Former president George H.W. Bush, who was in the White House when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, cut a ribbon at the embassy that was rebuilt in the former no man's land that divided Berlin during the communist era. AFP PHOTO DDP/MICHAEL GOTTSCHALK GERMANY OUT