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Dr Franziska Schmidtke is a political scientist and works for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in the Saxony-Anhalt regional office. She previously headed the FES climate and energy project in Asia.

In the summer of 2025, a quiet industrial town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, became the unlikely epicentre of a workers’ struggle that shook one of the country’s most beloved icons: the döner kebab.