Apartment-hunting in Berlin: A lottery
Barbara Steenbergen, head of the EU liaison office at the International Union of Tenants (IUT), is delighted with the rent cap. It s a blessing, she told DW. Like many NGOs, the IUT has been offering tenants an online tool to calculate how much their rent could be reduced by, and among those who checked, the average rent reduction turned out to be €210 ($255) per month: The people really say it s a relief, she said. It s like a wage increase. The IUT estimates that 365,000 people in the city now have the right to reduce their rent.
But the response from Jürgen Michael Schick, president of the German Real Estate Association (IVD), is scathing. The rent cap is a catastrophe for the Berlin housing market, he said in an email. It obstructs the construction of new apartments, even though Berlin is tens of thousands of apartments short every year. It obstructs the modernization of existing apartments. It limits the supply of apartments
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Germany’s Constitutional Court has refused to halt the country’s ratification of the agreement to terminate intra-EU BITs while it hears a complaint by Dutch insurer Achmea.
German court: Informants handler must stay secret
Germany s intelligence agencies face scrutiny from lawmakers over the deadly Christmas market terror attack in 2016. However, the country s top court refused to let lawmakers quiz an informants supervisor.
Opposition parties would not be allowed to question an intelligence officer over the 2016 Breitscheid Square terror attack, Germany s BVG constitutional court announced on Wednesday. The judges decided to protect the identity of the officer, who had been in charge of coordinating informants close to the attacker.
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