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Added on the 15/04/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Berlin, Apr 15 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Filip Singer) The decision of the German Constitutional Court to reject the Berlin law that, since 2020, set a cap on the rise in housing rents, prompted this Thursday both relief in the real estate sector and concern about the economic and social impact.FOOTAGE OF REAL ESTATE IN THE CENTER OF BERLIN.
Berlin (Germany), Dec 23 (EFE), (Camera: Maria Garrido).- Hundreds of thousands of Berliners who rent a property have benefited from the city's new rent control, although the rent price cap is still pending the Constitutional Court's decision.FOOTAGE OF BERLIN.SOUNDBITES OF: -WENKE CHRISTOPH, ROSA-LUXEMBURG-STIFTUNG'S EUROPE UNIT, THE LEFT (DIE LINKE)-MANOJ PANDEY, RESIDENT WHO RENTS A FLAT
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Bellevue Castle in Berlin. Zelensky's visit is aimed at rallying Western support for his embattled troops ahead of the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine. IMAGES
Christian Brueckner, the German man suspected of abducting missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, appears in public for the first time since being named in her case, arriving at a court in Braunschweig for the start of his trial on unrelated sex crime charges. German prosecutors have yet to charge Brueckner over Madeleine's disappearance, but in October 2022 he was charged with five separate counts of rape and child sex abuse allegedly committed in Portugal, where Madeleine disappeared, between 2000 and 2017. IMAGES