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Is English too widely spoken in Berlin?

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September 12, 2017

The CDU’s Jens Spahn has caused a stir with his opinion about English speakers in Berlin. In an editorial for Die Zeit, a German weekly, he writes that too much English in Berlin is a sign of provinciality, not worldliness.

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