David Zauner

David Zauner is a Berlin-based journalist covering the climate crisis and social movements in Germany and around the world. The geographer by training writes for Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Frankfurter Rundschau, Neues Deutschland, and serves as an editor at the German climate magazine Klimareporter°.

Oleksandr Ibrahimov, 56, a security guard working for 35 years at the House of Trade Unions, finds a sunflower growing amidst wreckage.

Ukraine’s War on Its Unions Ukraine’s War on Its Unions

Since the start of the war, the Ukrainian government has been cracking down harder on unions and workers’ rights. But slowly, the public mood is shifting.

Dec 9, 2025 / David Zauner

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