Its antigrowth economic policies since the 1970s--the kind admired by Obama--have led to an increasingly serious malaise that is impacting its politics: the Left Party, successor to the East German Communist Party, could become part of the government after next year's elections.

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There are more than 500 galleries in the city including cool new "pop-up" art spaces and plenty of chic new boutique hotels, including the Amano, the Casa Camper and the party-friendly Soho House that has decamped in the former East German Communist headquarters.

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