A black sedan rolls along a small country road between fields of sunflowers, the passengers hidden behind the cars' tinted windows.
This is the route from Schoenhagen Airfield, and luxury cars are such a common sight that locals don't even raise their heads when they pass by.
By car, Schoenhagen is about 35 minutes from the centre of Berlin, and 25 minutes from the centre of Potsdam, the capital of the Brandenburg federal state. The airport's website describes it as "the perfect...
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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.