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  Germany. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
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.
The chief theater of the war, Germany was reduced to misery and starvation, lost a large part of its population, and became, as a result of the Peace of Westphalia (1648; see Westphalia, Peace of), a loose confederation of petty principalities under the nominal suzerainty of the emperor.
In Mar., 1936, Germany remilitarized the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
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 Germany - The Chancellor and the Cabinet
Cabinet ministers are expected to introduce specific policies at the ministerial level that reflect the chancellor's broader guidelines.
The chancellor determines the composition of the cabinet.
The staff of a cabinet minister is managed by at least two state secretaries, both of whom are career civil servants responsible for the ministry's administration, and a parliamentary state secretary, who is generally a member of the Bundestag and represents the ministry there and in other political forums.
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 Graft splits Cabinet as Germany freezes aid
Cabinet ministers George Saitoti, Simeon Nyachae, Mohamoud Mohammed, Mukhisa Kituyi and John Koech vigorously defended the Government against claims of corruption.
The statement said the Cabinet was satisfied that the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission was now fully funded and had the capacity to professionally investigate corruption and economic crime cases.
The statement added that the Cabinet had observed that the fight against corruption should be separated from partisan politics to avoid undermining the fight.
www.eastandard.net /archives/cl/print/news.php?articleid=13591   (1157 words)

  
 GERMANY
Germany was defeated in 1945 and was divided into zones that, in 1949, became West Germany and East Germany.
Germany is a federal republic in which the people elect their representatives by secret ballot.
Germany's army was reduced to 100,000 men, and the nation was forbidden from having an air force.
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 Vanguard - World : Germany: Merkel names cabinet
Germany’s incoming chancellor Angela Merkel named the conservative ministers in her cabinet on Monday, completing the line-up of a coalition government tasked with injecting life into an ailing economy.
Merkel warned her new cabinet must put aside party loyalties and work for the common good of the government.
With the 14-member cabinet now in place, formal negotiations were to begin on Monday to hammer out a programme for the government.
www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/world/w118102005.html   (681 words)

  
 Cabinet of Germany - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Cabinet of Germany (German: Bundeskabinett, Bundesregierung) is the chief executive body of the Federal Republic of Germany.
It consists of the Chancellor and the cabinet ministers.
The details of the cabinet's organisation are set down in articles 62 to 69 of the Basic Law.
tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Cabinet_of_Germany   (399 words)

  
 Germany
Germany renames a military base for a WWII soldier who saved Lithuanian Jews and was executed for it.
Germany and Japan: The Future of Nationally Embedded Capitalism in a Global Economy." Wolfgang Streeck and Kozo Yamamura, 1998.
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.
www.iup.edu /politicalscience/courses/ps280/H-germa1.htm   (1706 words)

  
 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, or USPD) was a short-lived political party in Germany during the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
To be able to continue their parliamentary work, the group formed the Sozialdemokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (SAG, "Social Democratic Working Group"); concerns from the SPD leadership and Friedrich Ebert that the SAG was intent on dividing the SPD then led to the expulsion of the SAG members from the SPD on January 18 1917.
Ultimately, the proposition to join the Komintern was approved at a party convention in Halle in October 1920, but the USPD split up in the process, with both groups seeing themselves as the rightful USPD and the other one as being outcast.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/USPD   (428 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - German Cabinet OKs opening of Nazi archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Cabinet agreed Wednesday to open to researchers an archive of millions of Nazi files that describe the mechanics of the Holocaust.
Germany's move follows an agreement to unlock the archive reached last month by the 11-nation governing body of the International Tracing Service, the arm of the International Committee of the Red Cross that oversees the archive in the German town of Bad Arolsen.
The strongest pressure to open the storehouse of some 50 million files came from the dying generation of Holocaust survivors and victims' families who feared the histories of their loved ones would be lost forever unless the rules were changed.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-06-28-nazi-archives_x.htm   (432 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Germany approves Afghan force
On Friday Germany's cabinet had approved the measure, although there was disagreement as to how long troops should serve in Afghanistan.
Germany had also wanted a separate command structure from that of the US forces, who are still hunting Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, but the multinational peacekeeping force will be under overall US military authority.
Germany's government has faced criticism over its perceived lack of military spending, and Mr Scharping acknowledged that the German military was short of crucial equipment.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1724276.stm   (430 words)

  
 Merkel Announces German Cabinet | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 17.10.2005
Germany's chancellor-to-be Angela Merkel named the conservative ministers in her cabinet Monday to complete the line-up of a coalition government which faces a formidable task to regenerate an ailing economy.
Appointing only a part of the cabinet was the price Merkel paid for evicting Gerhard Schröder from the chancellery after seven years in a power-sharing deal which hands his Social Democrats eight of the 14 cabinet posts, including the key finance and foreign ministries.
Germany's incoming chancellor Angela Merkel huddled with party leaders on Friday seeking big-hitting conservative ministers able to hold their own against coalition partners loyal to Gerhard Schröder.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,2144,1743575,00.html   (729 words)

  
 BACKGROUND - German Archive - Your Reference for politics, economy, culture and history of Germany
Politics of Germany takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Federal Chancellor is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (literally: Alliance 90/The Greens), the German Green Party, is a political party in Germany whose regional predecessors were founded in the late 1970s as part of the new social movements.
The Länder (see States of Germany) are responsible for the lower levels of the court system; the highest appellate courts alone operate at the federal level.
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 BBC News | EUROPE | Germany's creaking cabinet
As Germany debated sending troops to Macedonia, he used military planes to fly him home from Majorca - where he was on holiday with his lover, Countess Kristina Pilati - and to return there after the vote.
He is not the only minister whose future in the cabinet has been placed in doubt.
The Sueddeutsche wrote that Mr Mueller - the only unaffiliated cabinet member - was wavering between his loyalty to the cabinet and his remaining chances to get a top industry job.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/1118394.stm   (532 words)

  
 Documents Regarding the "Morgenthau Plan"
The remaining portion of Germany should be divided into two autonomous, independent states, (1) a South German state comprising Bavaria, Wuerttemberg, Baden and some smaller areas and (2) a North German state comprising a large part of the old state of Prussia, Saxony, Thuringia and several smaller states.
The position frankly taken by some of my colleagues was that the great industrial regions of Germany known as the Saar and the Ruhr with their very important deposits of coal and ore should be totally transformed into a non-industrialized area of agricultural land.
During the past eighty years of European history this portion of Germany was one of the most important sources of the raw materials upon which the industrial and economic livelihood of Europe was based.
teachingamericanhistory.org /library/index.asp?document=907   (2654 words)

  
 Germany's SPD Reveals Cabinet Members | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 13.10.2005
A frequent guest on Germany's political TV talk shows, Gabriel is seen as a centrist within the party.
Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Ulla Schmidt Schmidt had one of the worst jobs in Germany's cabinet: She pushed through a far-reaching health reform that introduced a co-pay for doctor's visits, among other things.
Germany's outgoing Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has firmly ruled out taking up any post in the new government.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,2144,1739934,00.html   (933 words)

  
 Prime minister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system.
The Prime Minister is formally the presiding minister of the Privy Council and the cabinet.
The term, widely used in political science worldwide, draws a distinction between a head of government who is merely a facilitator and co-ordinator of a cabinet (the "chairman"), and those who lead it forcefully from the front, setting its policy agenda and requiring all ministers to follow the leader's policies (the "chief").
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Prime_Minister   (2918 words)

  
 Bush takes holiday break from stocking Cabinet Germany finds new BSE case Israel hints at progress in peace talks ...
Germany said on Sunday it had found another case of suspected mad cow disease -- raising the total to four suspected cases on top of five confirmed incidents of the brain-wasting illness.
Fischler added "there has been quite a bit of confusion" in Germany over the spread of mad cow disease, where panic has swept the country that until last month believed it was immune to the brain-wasting disease because of its quality controls.
Germany blames EU Martin Wille, deputy farm minister, dismissed Fischler's charges and said German government officials had worked quickly and efficiently to cooperate with the EU.
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=21173   (2934 words)

  
 Cabinet of Germany (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The details of the cabinet's organisation are set down in sections 62 to 69 of the Basic Law.
Section 64 paragraph 2 of this law says that the Chancellor and the ministers have to be sworn in when taking office.
The Cabinet ministers have the freedom to carry out their duties independently, but following the Chancellor's directive.
cabinet-of-germany.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (231 words)

  
 CER | Germany: Two cabinet ministers step down over BSE
Health Minister Andrea Fischer of the Green Party (she is, however, completely unrelated to left-wing-rioter-turned-Foreign-Minister Joschka Fischer) and the Social Democratic Minister for Agriculture, Karl-Heinz Funke, succumbed to mounting public criticism of their allegedly incompetent treatment of the problem.
It is ironic that the Greens, who during their two years in Schröder's government, who have had to take one humiliation after another, should be driven by the BSE crisis to reinvent themselves as the card-carriers of environmentalism once more.
However, this potential revival is going to be tainted from the outset by the EU decision to kill about two million cows (of which about 400,000 are in Germany) as a radical way to stop the further spread of BSE.
www.ce-review.org /01/2/germanynews2.html   (249 words)

  
 Foreign Office (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The German Foreign Office (in German, Auswärtiges Amt, or AA) is the foreign ministry of Germany, and is responsible for both its foreign politics and its relationship with the European Union.
The Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) was established in 1870, as the foreign ministry of the North German Confederation, and from 1871 of the unified Germany.
In addition to the ministry's headquarters in Berlin, Germany has established embassies and consulates around the world.
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 CNN.com - Berlin eyes hijack shoot-down law - Nov. 5, 2003
Germany's Cabinet has approved a measure to allow the military to shoot down hijacked airliners over German airspace if they are deemed to pose a threat.
The bill leaves the decision to act with the federal government, not the military, under an agreement reached after weeks of talks between Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's governing Social Democrats and their junior partner, the Greens.
Air force interceptors could be scrambled for such a mission from two bases and could reach any place in Germany within 15 minutes, Defense Minister Peter Struck said.
cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/11/05/germany.shootdown.ap/index.html   (324 words)

  
 Cabinet Magazine Online - Get Rid of Yourself
In July 2003, Cabinet participated in a two-part exhibition at the ACC Galerie in Weimar, Germany, and at Halle 124 in Leipzig, Germany.
Cabinet's presentation was based on the two land projects in New Mexico and Queens presented in Issue 10 ("Property).
Other participants in the group included Matthew Buckingham, Bernadette Corporation, Cabinet Magazine, eteam, NYC Surveillance Camera Players, Michael Rakowitz, Anne-Marie Schleiner/Brody Condon/retroyou u.a., 16 Beaver Group, Temporary Services, and Picture Projects and the 360-Degree Team.
www.cabinetmagazine.org /events/getridofyourself.php   (128 words)

  
 Cabinet Magazine Online - Electrical Walks: Samples of Raw Sounds
She then loans the headphones to the public, allowing participants to undertake an auditory dérive through the invisible network of electromagnetic information.
To date, Kubisch has undertaken her own personal walks in Germany, England, France, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States, and has held public walks in Berlin, Cologne, Karlsruhe, Bremen, Oxford, and London.
To accompany the interview with Kubisch in Cabinet no. 21, she has provided us with thirty sound samples gathered by her while walking through various cities.
www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/21/kubisch.php   (310 words)

  
 IOL: SA cabinet off to Germany
Mbeki and his delegation of eight ministers and one deputy will receive the baton from Germany during a handover ceremony where SA artists will perform and also launch the logo for the 2010 World Cup in SA.
In 2007 Germany will chair both the G8 group of industrialised nations and the European Union, which are key vehicles for boosting international support for Africa.
Pahad said Mbeki would also discuss SA's preparations for its hosting of the cup with Merkel and Koehler, noting that Germany had played a major role in helping SA win the bid for the Cup and to prepare for it.
www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=vn20060705045544975C120361   (505 words)

  
 Schott’s Blog » Cabinet of Germany detests press freedom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Cabinet of Germany doesn’t seem to be interested in the freedom of the press.
It seems that the Cabinet of Germany doesn’t want to find out about the truth:
The Cabinet of Germany should think about the future of press freedom in Germany.
www.kai-schott.de /blog/550   (93 words)

  
 East Germany
On October 7, the Soviet zone became the German Democratic Republic (commonly called East Germany), with East Berlin as its capital.
East Germany's armed forces were established officially in 1956, though special "police" units had been given tanks and other heavy weapons as early as 1952.
In October, the growing pressure forced Honecker to resign as head of the party and from his government positions.
www.cybergerman.addr.com /east.html   (706 words)

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