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A QUARTER of a million people marched through Berlin on Saturday in protest at the anti-democratic TTIP trade pact.
The demonstration, organised by the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) drew support from left parties, environmentalists and charities.
Colourful floats included a Trojan horse representing the treaty and another showing Chancellor Angela Merkel lighting the fuse of a bomb sitting on a building labelled “democracy.”
WILL PODMORE admires an account of the liberation of Berlin that overthrows the conventional US army-inspired account
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
NICK WRIGHT returns to Berlin and finds a city in darkness and political turmoil
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN