Sascha Döring works as public relations secretary for the Socialist Youth of Germany – The Falcons. He lives in Berlin.
Skyrocketing prices and stagnating real wages are forcing more and more pubs to shut their doors. The closing of neighborhood pubs means the loss of leisure space, and of the community built around it.
Germany’s Green Party is polling in first place for September’s federal election, spurring hopes of real action on the climate. But in the run-up to the vote, the party’s leaders have spared no effort in boasting of their “pro-business” credentials — and their record in regional government shows they’ll never challenge polluting corporations.