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She played fantastically. She hit it so hard that I couldn't do anything. It was a level I couldn't believe. I didn't know what to do with it. Oh my god, what a player, for me a future superstar, Sabalenka raved about her young opponent already at the end of June in Berlin, when she managed to turn the match around from a score of 2:6, 0:4. #NikolaBartůňková #tenis #WTA (translated)

The number of long-term unemployed receiving citizen's money for at least five years has risen to 1.4 million, with particularly high rates recorded in Berlin and Bremen, while the AfD is using this situation for its populist agenda. #Bürgergeld #Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit #AfD (translated)

In his column, Harald Martenstein describes the violent attacks on the 67-year-old HG Lindenau, who was attacked in his neighborhood shop in Kreuzberg after a poster with the lyrics of a Boy George song, expressing support for the Jews, was hung in his window, and shows how anti-Semitism manifests itself in Berlin's autonomous scene. #Kreuzberg #Judenhass #Gewalt (translated)

Jiri Jicha wrote that Andy Burnham confirmed after a briefing with intelligence services the direct involvement of the Kremlin in the Brexit referendum in 2016. According to Jicha, Burnham warned Berlin and Paris that Russia is similarly attempting to influence their countries. He described Brexit as an abuse of the British state by foreign intelligence services and claimed that Britain is still paying for it with industrial collapse, chaos, and rising prices. #Brexit #Rusko #Zpravodajství (translated)

Marek Stoniš wrote that the debate about the future Prague coalition was only about the pace of the city's "Berlinization." He distinguished between an ultra-left variant made up of STAN, the Pirates, and Prague Together without ODS, and a left coalition of STAN with ODS without the Pirates; the former would mean a faster progress according to him, the latter just a quick one. #Praha #politika #vláda (translated)

In the conflict over an agreement against anti-Semitism in Berlin, 120 left-wing politicians have spoken out against the agreement reached, which has led to sharp criticism within the SPD and raises questions about the stability of a possible red-red-green coalition. #Antisemitismus #Linke #Berlin (translated)

Waldemar Hartmann reported that Gordon Schnieder (CDU), the Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate, was a guest on the ARD program "Report from Berlin" after a meeting of his party's executive board. Hartmann had hoped for new insights but, in his assessment, heard the same statements as for months: People need to be taken along and their concerns taken seriously. In addition, Schnieder ruled out collaboration with the AfD. Hartmann criticized that the CDU had understood nothing and predicted it would soon be in single digits. The "death knell" is already ringing, he wrote. #CDU #RheinlandPfalz #Politik (translated)

The author wrote that the former Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller had recounted to the newspaper Berlingske an episode that he deemed highly compromising regarding Navi Pillay, the Nobel Peace Prize winner. The author placed the episode in 2008. #Nobel #Danimarca #Pace #DK (translated)

The author wrote that for a political awakening in Berlin, new paths must be taken and antisemitism as well as hatred towards Israel must be excluded. A coalition of CDU, Greens, and SPD would not be perfect in his assessment, but with a common personality of nationwide impact in the Red City Hall, it could make history for Berlin. #Berlin #Politik #Gemeinschaft #DE (translated)