Berlin botched a democratic election, struggled to deal with everyday problems and was rocked by riots on New Year's Eve.
Is the capital a failed state, as the CSU from Bavaria likes to claim?
"The biggest nonsense of the millennium!" Says Ann-Kathrin Hipp.
It's her job to put her finger in Berlin's wounds: At the "Tagesspiegel" she is responsible for the "Checkpoint", cultivated love-hate relationship with the capital in its purest form.
On a walk through the capital, the journalist explains why so many things go wrong here, what works really well for a change – and what makes Berlin so endearing.
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