Alexandra Leistner
Germany
Oktoberfest: What's it like to don a dirndl and work as a waitress?
Of course, there are times when the wait staff at Oktoberfest have to deal with difficult customers. "I think if you just have good banter, or a 'mouth like a sword' as they say in Bavaria, you can actually get by quite well with that."
Germany
Students at Catholic school in Germany fight for gay teacher's rights
One topic is at the forefront of everyone's minds at a Catholic school in Borken, on Germany's border with the Netherlands: the decision of the school's management to backtrack on offering a trainee teacher a permanent position.
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Austria
Keeping patients safe: our next #Europeanhero is a hospital cleaner
When Juliana Vintala was working as a tax consultant in Romania, she never envisaged working as a cleaner. But in Vienna, she found work as a hospital cleaner, and this #Europeanhero is pleased to make patients more comfortable.
World News
Public broadcasting: Licence fees in Europe compared
In Britain, those over 75 do not have to pay for it. In Germany, its existence is being debated in the Federal Constitutional Court. In Switzerland, most of the population voted against its abolition in a referendum. But what about other countries?
Germany
'Little enquiry' letter by anti-immigrant AfD links severe disability with immigration
An enquiry by MPs of Germany's right-wing populist AfD is seeking data on the number of children of immigrant background born with severe disabilities that may have resulted from marriage inside the family.
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