We continue our series ahead of the 26 May elections with Karsten Albrecht (CDU), City Council candidate for Leipzig South. Auf Deutsch & in English. He was the second candidate willing to give us an interview - later, we were able to reach more, and are doing our best to publish the interviews quickly and
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We kick off our series of interviews ahead of the 26 May elections with Martin Grund (SPD). The Plagwitz resident was the first Leipzig City Council candidate who reached out to us. Die Interviews werden in deutscher und englischer Sprache gemeinsam veröffentlicht.
MoreInitial questions will include how many employees the Leipzig Foreigners' Authority has and processing times for applications compared to other German cities. Further research would aim to assess the public officials' level of intercultural and foreign language training.
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"Have you found it difficult to make friends with Germans? Do you feel like your neighbors are indifferent and standoffish? Do you worry that people here don't seem to like you very much? Then let me introduce you to the German core value of privacy."
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