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Sep 23, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Ben Knight

    Could a Left Party government in Berlin expropriate large real estate companies? (opens the original)

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    The socialist Left Party, which won the Berlin election on September 20, was the only major party on the ballot that said it would implement the results of Berlin's 2021 referendum, when 57.6% of Berliners voted to expropriate the apartments owned by real estate companies that own more than 3,000 units. But the federal government has said they won't let it happen. So is it even possible? And how did we get here? DW explains: The Left Party was one of the main supporters of a successful, years-lo

  2. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Ben Knight

    Why young Berliners vote overwhelmingly for the socialist Left Party (opens the original)

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    The emphatic victory for the Left Party in last Sunday's state election in Berlin may not have been quite so emphatic if it hadn't been for a significant new rule: This was the first state election in the German capital's history where the voting age had been lowered from 18 to 16. The actual change was relatively small: It only added around 55,000 voters to the city's electorate of 2.5 million, but it was massively significant to young people themselves: "Of course we talk a lot about politics

  3. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Ben Knight

    Judges: As AfD ascends, Germany must bolster justice system (opens the original)

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    The official association of German judges, the Deutscher Richterbund (DRB), has called on the federal government to tighten up the law to stop state governments from abusing prosecution powers to potentially influence criminal cases. The prospect that the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) could take over the government in Saxony-Anhalt, which appears highly likely after the party's resounding election win in early September, has raised fears that "extremists in government" could steer "cri

  4. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Ben Knight

    Socialist Left leads far-right AfD in polarized Berlin polls (opens the original)

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    Berlin, a city-state of 3.9 million people, is famously diverse, but it's also very atomized — a city of villages, where people often don't stray beyond their district, or Kiez, as Berliners like to call them. That atomization extends to its political landscape: While the central districts of Berlin have recently voted Green or for the socialist Left Party, the outskirts — where in fact most Berliners live — is dominated by the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and, in certain distr

  5. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Ben Knight

    Socialist Left leads far-right AfD ahead of Berlin vote (opens the original)

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    Berlin, a city-state of 3.9 million people, is famously diverse, but it's also very atomized — a city of villages, where people often don't stray beyond their district, or Kiez, as Berliners like to call them. That atomization extends to its political landscape: While the central districts of Berlin have recently voted Green or for the socialist Left Party, the outskirts — where in fact most Berliners live — is dominated by the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and, in certain distr

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