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Current edition 13.06.13 | 21:30 - 22:00 UTC

People and Politics - The Political Magazine

On this week's show: Chancellor Angela Merkel and her election pledges / Future of MEADS in doubt / Visit from the White House / The East German uprising of 1953

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Taking Germany's Pulse

What do Germans expect from their politicians? What are they proud of? Do they trust the judicial system and the constitutional democracy?

Bundestag Up Close

The Bundestag is the symbol of German democracy. Some 2500 people work in the administrative and more than 600 deputies from across the country sit in the federal Parliament.

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The 50th Anniversary of the Turkish-German Guest Worker Treaty

People and Politics Archive

People and Politics  | 13.06.2013

On this week's show: Chancellor Angela Merkel and her election pledges / Future of MEADS in doubt / Visit from the White House / The East German uprising of 1953 

People and Politics  | 06.06.2013

Politicians in Deep Water | The Greens and Pedophilia | Nazis in the Civil Service | A Romanian Village Moves to Berlin 

People and Politics  | 30.05.2013

German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière on the Defensive | How Big a Danger do Salafists Pose in Germany? | Neo-Nazis are Well-Connected, Even Behind Bars | Bad Sooden-Allendorf Implements a Horse Tax 

People and Politics  | 23.05.2013

The German Chancellor and her Past - Angela Merkel’s Life in Communist East Germany | Xenophobia - the Solingen Arson Attack 20 Years On | Escape from Hell - Wounded Syrians taken to German Hospitals for Treatment | Demographic Change - Alternative Communal Living for Seniors 

People and Politics  | 16.05.2013

A New Record - Germany Attracts More Immigrants | Organizing an Inexperienced Army - German Military Trainers in Mali | From a Workers' Association to a Major Political Party - 150 Years of the SPD | The Battle for the Bees - Are Germany's Bees a Dying Breed? 

People and Politics

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Melinda Crane

Melinda Crane is DW's Chief Political Correspondent, and also hosts the English editions of Quadriga and People & Politics.

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Christopher Springate

Born in Hong Kong, Christopher spent much of his childhood abroad. After studying languages and journalism in Cambridge, London and Paris, he married a Berlin teacher (two sons).

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