Berliners frustrated over restaurants where no German is spoken
German MPs say some waiters only speak English and that it ostracises native population from life in the capital
A leading member of Angela Merkel’s party has lent his voice to a growing chorus of Berliners frustrated with the inability of restaurant staff to speak German.
Jens Spahn, a deputy finance minister and leading voice on the right newspaper that “it increasingly drives me up the wall that waiters in some Berlin restaurants only speak English,” adding: “You would never find this craziness in Paris.”
