Germans Growing Allergic to Berlin

Dirk Maxeiner, Die Welt (in German) | June 11, 2010

Talk in Germany these days revolves around one topic: “political Berlin.” ++ One late night crisis meeting after the other has led the “ungrateful burgher” to disparage what he considers “a detached coterie of political parties.” ++ While “political Berlin” considers those who do not belong to “the inner circle of politicians, lobbyists, and journalists” to be clueless, Germans think much the same of Berlin. ++ Berlin has lost touch with the people “out there” and is succumbing to “bunker mentality.”