On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Daniela Vates, Chief Correspondent in the Berlin Bureau of the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland.

RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland is a Hannover-based corporate newsroom that provides journalistic content to more than 60 daily newspapers across the country – including Frankfurter Rundschau, Leipziger Volkszeitung, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, and Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung – and reaches nearly seven million readers daily. Before joining RND, she was a political correspondent for the Berliner Zeitung and Reuters. Ms. Vates has reported from Berlin since 1999 – and from the then German capital Bonn for a couple of years before that. She covers German domestic politics and foreign policy. She studied Journalism and Political Science in Munich and the United States and is a graduate of the Deutsche Journalistenschule (DJS) in Munich.