Berlin is also a smoker’s city — it has the highest smoking rate in Germany: 35% of adult males in Berlin, vs. 31% in Hamburg and 27% in Bavaria. The discrepancies are similar for women and teens. read more
The euro zone is also starting to look like a two-class society, with Germany and a few other northern countries in the top class and most of the rest in the bottom tier. France is somewhere in between. Within each class, attitudes are hardening against the other. read more