Building a national Holocaust memorial in the center of Berlin will take longer and cost more than originally planned, according to the president of the German Parliament. While denying reports that cost overruns would derail the project, Wolfgang Thierse declined to estimate the cost of the memorial. Nor would he offer an estimate when work would begin on the project.
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