What’s in the Red-Green-Red Coalition Plans for Berlin?
Museum Sundays are coming back, long-term migrants could get voting rights, and there are concrete plans for housing socialisation: we examine the exploratory paper
Wikimeadia Commons: Shisma, CC BY 4.0, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Ralf Roletschek, GFDL 1.2
We’ve got an agreement, albeit a preliminary one. After weeks of political back and forth, Die Linke, the Greens and the SPD have set out their first plans for the city under a left-leaning coalition.
The parties, which had 'paused' talks last week, reconvened to publish an ‘exploratory paper’: a 30-page document outlining their major plans for Berlin, which will form the basis for the next stage of coalition negotiations. And what it contains is telling.
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