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| | Bundestag (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It was established with Germany's constitution of 1949 (the Grundgesetz), and is the successor of the earlier Reichstag. | | | The Bundestag members are the only federal officials directly elected by the public; the Bundestag in turn elects the Chancellor and, in addition, exercises oversight of the executive branch on issues of both substantive policy and routine administration. | | | With the new constitution of 1949, the Bundestag was established as the new (West) German parliament. |
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| | GERMANY |
| | Bundestag deputies and an equal number of electors selected by German state legislatures elect the president to a five-year term. | | | The Bundestag elects a member of the strongest political party in that house to be federal chancellor, the head of the government. | | | Half of the judges are appointed by the Bundestag and half by the Bundesrat. |
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| | Germany on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The president is elected for a five-year term by a federal convention, which meets only for this purpose and consists of the Bundestag and an equal number of members elected by the state parliaments. | | | Germany is a federal republic whose 16 states have their own constitutions, legislatures, and governments, which can pass laws on all matters except those that are the exclusive right of the federal government such as defense, foreign affairs, and finance. | | | Executive authority lies with the federal government, whose leader, the federal chancellor, is elected by an absolute majority of the Bundestag for a four-year term. |
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| | Germany - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | Germany has the world's third most technologically powerful economy (only the United States and Japan are more powerful), but its economy is starting to have problems, because Germany pays a lot of money to many people who have no job. | | | The people of Germany vote for the parliament, called the Bundestag (Federal Assembly), every four years. | | | To the north of Germany are the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, and the country Denmark. |
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| | Germany (11/05) |
| | Germany continues to be active economically in the states of central and eastern Europe and to actively support the development of democratic institutions, bilaterally and through the EU. | | | The Bundestag (lower, principal chamber of the parliament) elects the chancellor. | | | The number of seats in the Bundestag was reduced to 598 for the 2002 elections. |
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| | Germany - encyclopedia article about Germany. |
| | Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary nation, made up of 16 federal states (Länder or, more commonly, Bundesländer), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation. | | | Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies into four military occupation zones – French in the southwest, British in the northwest, United States in the south, and Soviet in the east. | | | Horst Köhler Horst Köhler(, born 22 February 1943) is the President of Germany. |
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| | wikien.info: Main_Page |
| | Bundespräsident (President of the Federation) is the German language title for: The President of Austria (head of state)The President of Germany (head of state)The President of the Swiss Confederation: the presiding member of the Swiss Federal Council (government and head of state): This is a .. | | | redirect[[Template:Politics of Germany]] The Bundesrat ("federal council") is the representation of the 16 Federal States (Bundesländer) of Germany at the federal level. | | | It was established with Germany's constitution of 1949 (the Grundgesetz), and is the successor of the earlier Reichstag. |
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| | Germany - Atlapedia Online |
| | In October 1993 the Bundesbank's president Helmut Schlesinger was succeeded by Hans Tietmeyer and Germany became the last of the 12 EU members to complete the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty after the constitutional court had rejected several objections. | | | On June 26, 1992 the Bundestag voted to extend the former East Germany's liberal abortion rules, allowing for on demand abortion within the first 3 months of pregnancy, to the whole of Germany. | | | On May 26, 1993 Bundestag deputies were jeered by thousands of protesters as the government parties finally ended years of arguments and agreed to amendments to the constitution that tightened Germany's open-door policy on foreign asylum seekers. |
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| | ISN Security Watch - Germany, Austria, Slovakia approve EU treaty |
| | The draft of the EU constitution was agreed on in Brussels on 18 June 2004 and signed by the bloc's 25 heads of state in Rome at the end of last year. | | | A total of 569 members of the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, voted in favor of the constitution, with 23 voting against and two abstentions. | | | ISN SECURITY WATCH (13/05/05) - Germany’s Bundestag on Thursday voted in favor of the EU constitution, bringing to eight the number of member countries that have ratified the document, after the Austrian and Slovakian parliaments had approved the treaty the day before. |
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| | Chancellor of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This was the case with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder from 1999 until he resigned the chairmanship of the SPD in 2004. | | | Chancellor Ludwig Erhard had the largest cabinet, with twenty-two ministers in the mid-1960s. | | | The chancellor's authority emanates from the provisions of the Basic Law and from his or her status as leader of the party (or coalition of parties) holding a majority of seats in the Bundestag (federal parliament). |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Baden |
| | The highest spiritual authority of Catholic Baden is the Archbishop of Freiburg, who is also Metropolitan of the province of the Upper Rhine; he is a member of the First Chamber of Baden, ranks immediately after the ministers of state, and enjoys the title of Excellency. | | | With the death of Augustus George (1761-71), who by papal dispensation had left the ecclesiastical state, and who founded many religious institutions, the line of Baden-Baden became extinct, and the succession fell to the Baden-Durlach branch. | | | In Baden, by the order of the Grand duke, the candidate for the archiepiscopal see was elected by free vote of the assembled deans (1822), but their choice of Wanker, a professor of theology in Freiburg, was condemned by the pope as canonically invalid. |
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| | Germany - encyclopedia article about Germany. |
| | Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary state, made up of 16 federal states (Länder), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation. | | | The Soviet-supported East Germany, by contrast, became one of the most repressive of the communist satellite states of the Warsaw Pact. | | | Germany is a constitutional federal republic, whose political system is laid out in the 1949 constitution called Grundgesetz (Basic Law). |
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| | Bundestag elections drive Germany into political chaos - Pravda.Ru |
| | The Party of Democratic Socialism, the reformed successor of Germany's old communists, received over eight percent of votes in the elections and overcame the five-percent limit. | | | According to the results of an opinion poll conducted in Germany, 53 percent of respondents said that they would vote for Schroeder, if it were possible to elect the chancellor directly. | | | Western Germany has already experienced such a situation in 1966, when a CDU candidate Kurt George Kiesinger became the German Chancellor, whereas Social Democrat Willy Brandt took the position of the Vice Chancellor and headed the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Germany. |
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| | Germany |
| | Germany has recently caught the Internet bug, and there are a large number of resources available. | | | Ten years after the fall of the wall, Germany is dealing less with the issues of the past and more with difficult issues of the present. | | | Germany Bans Far-Right Marches," Washington Post, 13 August 2000. |
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| | History of Baden, Wuerttemberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg |
| | The constitution of 1919 resulted in annual election of a member of the regional parliament to the state presidency, at the head of the regime (of Baden). | | | As a result of the referendum of December 6, 1951, Baden was absorbed into the new state of Baden-Württemberg on April 25, 1952. | | | As a result of a referendum held on the Dec. 6th 1951 both zones and the French zone of Baden were merged into the state of Baden-Württemberg. |
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| | Encyclopedia: States of Germany |
| | Saarland is one of the 16 states of Germany. | | | Germany is a federation of 16 states called Länder (singular Land) or Bundesländer (singular Bundesland). | | | Germany is a federal republic made up of 16 states, known in German as Länder (transliterated as laender in English, singular Land). |
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| | Germany: Map, History and Much More From Answers.com |
| | The president is elected for a five-year term by a federal convention, which meets only for this purpose and consists of the Bundestag and an equal number of members elected by the state parliaments. | | | In the late 1960s, diplomatic contacts with West Germany were initiated; these culminated in 1973 with the signing of a treaty between the two states. | | | Germany was a collection of competing states until it was unified during the second half of the nineteenth century under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck. |
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| | Elections in Germany - definition of Elections in Germany in Encyclopedia |
| | Elections in Germany gives information on election and election results in Germany, including elections to the Federal Diet (the lower house of the federal parliament), the Landtage of the various states, and local elections. | | | The election period is generally four to five years, and the dates of elections vary from state to state. | | | An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. |
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| | Centre Party (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Centre Party, whose pragmatic principles generally left it open to supporting either a monarchical or republican form of government, proved one of the mainstays of the Weimar Republic, continuing the cooperation with SPD and DDP in the Weimar Coalition. | | | The German Centre Party (Deutsche Zentrumspartei or merely Zentrum), often called the Catholic Centre Party, was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic. | | | In 1945 the Centre's Rudolf Amelunxen had been the new state's first prime minister and the Centre party participated in the state government until 1958, when it dropped out of the state parliament. |
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| | Politics of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In September 2004 elections were held in the states of Saarland, Brandenburg and Saxony. | | | Liberals, Greens, conservatives and the far left were the winners of the European election in Germany, because voters were disillusioned by high unemployment and cuts in social security, while the governing SPD party seems to be concerned with quarrels between the party wings and unable to give any clear direction. | | | Half an hour after the election results, the SPD chairman Franz Müntefering announced that the chancellor would clear the way for premature federal elections by the means of a purposely lost vote of confidence. |
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| | Cabinet of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It consists of the Chancellor and the cabinet ministers. | | | The Cabinet of Germany (German: Bundeskabinett, Bundesregierung) is the chief executive body of the Federal Republic of Germany. | | | The details of the cabinet's organisation are set down in articles 62 to 69 of the Basic Law. |
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| | Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary nation, made up of 16 federal states (Länder or, more commonly, Bundesländer), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation. | | | Germany is divided into sixteen federal states (in German called Bundesländer, singular Bundesland; though the correct constitutional term is Länder, singular Land). | | | Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, whose unexpectedly high demands were perceived as humiliating in Germany and as a continuation of the war by other means. |
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