Berlin’s inner-city parks are increasingly becoming camping spots for homeless people, many of them from eastern Europe. Local politicians are grappling for answers, with some calling for severe solutions.
Tiergarten is the green lung in the heart of Berlin. But a murder in September, accompanied by rising social problems, has led local politicians to push the alarm button on the idyllic, forested park.
Upset locals in the small central German town of Einbeck have kicked up a stink about a plague on their public spaces, by collecting 250 kg of dog poo and hanging it around the neck of a local statue.
People visiting one of Germany’s most popular parks, built on the site of the Berlin Wall, could soon be asked to pay a euro entry – to help pay for the enormous clear-up of litter needed each week to stop it turning into a rubbish tip.
The airfield of Berlin's historic Tempelhof airport will become the German capital’s largest park by the summer of 2010, city officials announced on Monday.
