At Berlin’s Herbert Hoover High School, roughly 90% of the pupils come from immigrant families, but in a step that has caused political ripples they have been told to speak German and nothing else. ”German is the language spoken in our school. Every pupil is therefore obliged to communicate only in German,” reads the rule that was adopted at the school.

Fifty-three years after it was founded by a French soldier, Berlin’s legendary Paris Bar that has hosted stars such as Madonna and Leonardo DiCaprio risks closing because of crushing debts and a criminal investigation. It is being investigated for tax arrears, unpaid social charges and employing illegal immigrants, according to prosecutors in Berlin.