Berlin’s new rent freeze: How it compares globally
- 23rd October 2019,
Berlin’s brand-new rent freeze (and cap) is hardly unique among cities with pressured housing markets. But..
Germany’s populist AfD appeals to Saxony’s ‘bourgeois’ small-town voters
- 26th August 2019,
The town of Bautzen is picturesque, prosperous and hasn’t had trouble with refugees for years. Nevertheless,..
Renters in Berlin are appealing to the local council to stop the sale of their homes...
Why the German urban middle class is going Green
- 17th July 2019,
In the European Parliament elections, the Greens won all of Germany’s major cities, secured a third..
Combat 18: The neo-Nazi network facing a ban in Germany
- 5th July 2019,
Germany may soon ban the neo-Nazi group Combat 18 as a terrorist organization. Given Germany’s history,..
Inhabitants of Fürstenfeldbruck, a refugee processing center near Munich, told DW of overcrowding, filth and bureaucratic..
Words Don’t Come Easy: “Populism”
- 29th April 2019,
There are fears that the growing populist forces on the right and left are paving the..
Close-Up: Robert Habeck
- 27th February 2019,
In a political landscape beset by fragmentation, Germanyʼs Greens are going from strength to strength. Their..
Conservative at Heart
- 3rd January 2019,
New CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has often been called an “Angela Merkel 2.0”. In fact, AKK..
Friedrich Merz: Germany’s Next Chancellor?
- 30th November 2018,
At a key party conference in early December, Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party is poised to..