A new report claims that more Germans are poor now than at any time since reunification. But some experts have dismissed the numbers as "not serious and stupid".
A conservative German politician has been slammed for suggesting that poor people be given the meals removed from sale because they contained horse meat. Charities and a Catholic leader said the idea showed an astonishing lack of respect.
A survey into Germany's rich and poor shows that while Germany as a whole may have escaped the worst of Europe's debt crisis, many of its citizens have not.
