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JOANNA SCHERINGER-WRIGHT of Germany’s Die Linke party talks to John Foster about the difficulties of working with the Social Democrats and the need to form a concrete policy on the EU

BERLIN is city with a proud history of left-wing politics and still boasts streets and squares named after Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.

In the recent Berlin State elections the combined votes of the Left Party (Die Linke), the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Green Party were sufficient to provide the basis for a left-oriented government. Negotiations are currently taking place.

Interviewed in the ancestral home of the German left, Karl Liebknecht House, executive member of the Left Party Dr Joanna Scheringer-Wright argued that such alliances at state/Lander level could have positive outcomes.

  • Dr Scheringer-Wright is the Left Party’s spokesperson for agriculture and regional development and a member of the party’s Communist Platform.
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