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In 1980, Franz Josef Strauss, the late chairman of the CSU, became candidate for Chancellor for the conservative 'Union'. In order to get there, he blackmailed his friends in Bonn. Forty-one years later, it will likely be the CSU's turn again. No blackmailing is necessary or intended this time.

In Germany, the next general elections are coming up in September. Forming any government coalition without the Greens will likely prove to be impossible. What…

Starting on Wednesday, new shopping rules will apply in Berlin, if the Senate does not throw them overboard again before they even kick in. The new unfitting…

In Berlin, more police officers on bicycles are now monitoring the streets. They are supposed to make sure cyclists are safe in the German capital, by protecting them from motorists and from themselves.

Organizing a giant vaccination campaign is an art form. It needs actors who know what they are doing and a director who streamlines the play until he achieves a…

In the city state of Berlin, the carrousel of candidates is turning as the next elections for the Berlin House of Representatives are coming closer. Everyone…

In Berlin's Neukölln district, a street will be renamed in April. For now, it is named after a colonialist who violently crushed the resistance in parts of Africa. Soon, it will carry the name of an anti-colonialist. Not everyone is happy though.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to leave Berlin at 10:15 a.m. and reach Nijmegen at 4:15 p.m.. So, what happened? The Big Tasty slowed me down.

On the streets of Berlin, two cyclists were killed within four days. In both cases, right-turning trucks crushed the victims. Knowledge and a technical add-on…

Germany's head of government, Angela Merkel, and her colleagues from the capitals of all federal states just prolonged the ongoing Corona lockdown amid rising infection numbers. During their Corona conference, they argued about several subjects.