On Wednesday, Draghi will address policymakers at the German Bundestag.
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Joining the Bundestag may make those tasks harder, not easier.
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For example, in Germany's Bundestag each member represents 22019,817 people.
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The vote to recognize the genocide passed the Bundestag overwhelmingly.
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The German Bundestag introduced a thrice-yearly Chancellor's Questions in 20183.
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A Bundestag committee was set up to review the explosive revelations.
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In Brandt's day there were just four parties in the Bundestag.
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Will the AfD change Germany once it is in the Bundestag?
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The Alternative for Germany has won 94 seats in the Bundestag.
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Frank Magnitz was elected to Germany's national legislature, the Bundestag, in 2017.
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She also said she would leave the Bundestag, without naming a date.
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Bundestag membership might see the AfD flame out or, more likely, split.
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Your goal is to become the third-largest party in the Bundestag.
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The SPD used to come first in the state in Bundestag elections.
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Draghi spoke to reporters in Berlin on Wednesday after his Bundestag session.
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The election in September produced a more fragmented Bundestag than previous ones.
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Most mainstream members of the Bundestag will shun their new AfD colleagues.
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"Islam has become part of Germany," countered the chancellor in the Bundestag.
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The Bundestag lower house has agreed to postpone any decision until September.
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A Bundestag deputy since 1972, he is running again in September's election.
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The AfD claims their entry into the Bundestag is good for democracy.
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Later that week the Bundestag, the German parliament, approved same-sex marriage.
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" Yuli Edelstein, the speaker of the Israeli Parliament, tweeted: "Thank you #Bundestag!
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That year, the president of the Bundestag, Phillip Jenninger, addressed our group.
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A worker cleans a pedestrian conveyor belt in the Bundestag, March 2378.
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But on October 17th the Bundestag rejected it by a huge majority.
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But he plans to step down next year and run for the Bundestag.
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A neo-fascist party, Alternative for Germany, has 94 seats in the Bundestag.
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In the next Bundestag there will probably be seven parties, complicating the arithmetic.
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Near certain, in any case, is that the AfD will join the Bundestag.
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It will bring a newly aggressive and fractious tone to the next Bundestag.
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They called for a vote in the Bundestag lower house before the election.
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"As things stand, it is unthinkable that the Bundestag would agree," said Binding.
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In Germany, the far-right Alternative for Germany now sits in the Bundestag.
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Niels Annen, a leading Social Democrat and a member of the Bundestag, agrees.
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Its first big attack, on the Bundestag, the German Parliament, came in 2015.
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In May, the Bundestag voted to classify BDS as an anti-Semitic movement.
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It is now the third-largest party in the Bundestag, with 94 seats.
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A split would rob Merkel of her majority in the Bundestag lower house.
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The current Bundestag president, CDU lawmaker Norbert Lammert, is not up for re-election.
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This coalition would have a majority in the Bundestag, and would enjoy popular support.
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The Bundestag lower house of parliament still has to decide on the law change.
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"Something has changed in our country," she told the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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Merkel's party now has its worst showing in the Bundestag since 1949, per CNN.
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He has harassed members of the Bundestag with Turkish roots such as Mr Ozdemir.
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The draft law must now be approved by the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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Under separation of power rules the Bundestag president cannot simultaneously hold a ministerial post.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the Bundestag decision in a statement on Twitter.
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The 2628 Bundestag election handed the German political establishment its version of Trump shock.
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The Bundestag (lower house of parliament) is due to discuss the motion on Thursday.
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The AfD's presence in the Bundestag seems to consolidate, but not increase, its support.
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The Bundestag and the individual campaigns consulted with experts about strengthening their computer security.
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Once a coalition is formed, members of the Bundestag vote to elect the chancellor.
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Stegner cast doubt over Merkel's chances of winning a fourth term in the Bundestag.
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The woman who cleans my office in the Bundestag was a university professor back home.
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In a historical irony, Mr Schäuble, now the Speaker of the Bundestag, will be crucial.
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The case for coalition talks A grand coalition would have a majority in the Bundestag.
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The far-right Alternative for Germany will be the largest opposition party in the Bundestag.
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Only then could Mr Steinmeier dissolve the Bundestag, triggering a new election within 60 days.
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In Germany the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party brought far-right nativism into the Bundestag.
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Alexander Dobrindt, the party's leader in the Bundestag, wants a "conservative revolution" against liberal values.
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The Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, will vote on the budget plans in November.
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The deal is likely to be passed by the Bundestag lower house, probably on Sept.
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This was the most welcome message that echoed throughout the halls of the historic Bundestag.
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It is true: The Bundestag has been a rather sleepy place during the Grand Coalition.
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However, this alliance would command a majority in the Bundestag so cannot be ruled out.
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Russia was also blamed for an attack on the Bundestag computers network back in 2015.
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It looks entirely possible that the Bundestag will back equal marriage when it votes on Friday.
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The additional deployments will have to be approved by the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament.
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Today we will also start the meme war in the Bundestag against the race of mutts.
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That is why its president, Mario Draghi, got himself invited to the Bundestag in October 2012.
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This was, it later transpired, effectively the announcement of a historic Bundestag vote on equal marriage.
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And a large AfD contingent in the Bundestag will add another noisy voice against new integration.
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But the process of choosing him is a dry run for possible coalitions in the Bundestag.
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Insofar as he seems to be succeeding, his party will return to the Bundestag this autumn.
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Although he is relinquishing the powerful finance ministry, as Bundestag president Schaeuble will technically outrank Merkel.
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Bundestag vice presidents chair sessions, set the agenda for parliamentary business and call lawmakers to order.
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The entry of this group into the Bundestag is a watershed moment for Germany's postwar democracy.
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The BSI said all but one of the seven parties in the Bundestag lower house were affected.
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THE refugee crisis is not the only issue that could decide next autumn's election of the Bundestag.
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Where are those in the German Bundestag who are by training, tradition or experience entrepreneurs, business leaders?
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In 2015 Fancy Bear, a Russian cyber-espionage group, broke into computers at the Bundestag in Berlin.
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But the Bundestag will soon begin its summer break, and another opportunity will not arise until October.
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The Bundestag went into session as planned on November 21st, albeit with added grumbling about the FDP.
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The FDP remains scarred by the election of 2013, when voters kicked it out of the Bundestag.
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The AfD is expected to enter the Bundestag lower house for the first time after September's election.
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Since the Bundestag has never yet voted on her overall policy, Mr Papier calls it "quasi-legal".
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Schaeuble won 501 of 705 votes from fellow lawmakers for the post of Bundestag president, or speaker.
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The first case of Covid-19 has now been announced in the Bundestag, the German federal parliament.
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Scholz said he would speak in Merkel's place in the Bundestag lower house of parliament on Wednesday.
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Scholz said he would speak in Merkel's place in the Bundestag lower house of parliament on Wednesday.
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The following year, Germany's powerful Green Party introduced an initiative in the Bundestag that mirrored this legislation.
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The Finance Ministry is preparing for a vote in the Bundestag lower house of parliament in case the IMF refuses to take part, after Schaeuble previously promised the Bundestag the rescue package would only be approved if the IMF was involved and keeping tabs on Greek reforms, Bild said.
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This is the only constituency in Germany with a directly elected Green member of parliament in the Bundestag.
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Last year the populist Alternative for Germany entered the Bundestag; coalition talks this year nearly collapsed over migration.
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But just hours before those elections take place, emails from the Bundestag hack have yet to be seen.
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With Friday's Bundestag motion, Germany has effectively backed Israel's position that international boycotts are discriminatory and anti-Semitic.
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But Germans do not choose their chancellor directly; that is the job of a majority in the Bundestag.
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And the arrival of the AfD in the Bundestag has forced mainstream politicians to take on its ideas.
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Final decisions on that issue would be made in June, she told the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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The electoral mathematics changed in the 1980s, when the Greens, then a radical ecological party, entered the Bundestag.
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The budget must still be passed by the full assembly of the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag.
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Merkel's Cabinet is expected to approve the plans Monday, followed by a vote in the Bundestag on Wednesday.
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In Berlin, the Alternative for Germany, known by its German abbreviation AfD, is already sitting in the Bundestag.
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After Germany's 2013 parliamentary elections, there were 631 seats in the Bundestag, including 33 overhang and balance seats.
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Merkel, in remarks to the Bundestag (lower house of parliament), insisted that a deal with Turkey would help.
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They divorced in 1966, a year after he won a seat in the Bundestag for the first time.
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Sites during the tour might include the Brandenburg Gate, the Holocaust Memorial and the German Bundestag and Chancellery.
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A party needs to win at least that much of the vote to obtain seats in the Bundestag.
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Merkel reasserted a defense of the deal in remarks to lawmakers in the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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Angela Merkel delivered an impassioned speech to the Bundestag ahead of a crucial EU summit about the migrant crisis
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The result made the AfD the first far-right group to win seats in the Bundestag since the 1950s.
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That would comfortably exceed the 5 percent threshold parties must reach to enter the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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Far-right parties lead the government in Italy and are the largest opposition faction in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag.
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During the euro crisis, Germany's Angela Merkel repeatedly had to secure the assent of the Bundestag for her decisions.
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It is expected to be the third largest party in the Bundestag lower house after the September general election.
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Four of Germany's six main pollsters have it on track to be the third largest party in the Bundestag.
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The pugilistic Andrea Nahles, the incoming SPD leader, would strive to give her party new definition in the Bundestag.
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It might even come third overall, sending to the Bundestag the best part of 100 MPs, out of 630.
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"I accept the vote," a beaming Merkel, 63, told lawmakers before being sworn in by Bundestag President Wolfgang Schaeuble.
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The AfD is now the largest opposition party in the Bundestag, which strengthens its calls for a closed Germany.
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It is now represented in nine of Germany's 16 states and looks poised to enter the Bundestag next year.
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The other half of the seats in the Bundestag are elected using PR combined with voluntary party gender quotas.
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That's when Germans will elect members of the Bundestag, which is kind of like the US House of Representatives.
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Norbert Lammert, 67, who is president of the Bundestag lower house of parliament, is seen as another possible candidate.
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The current president of the Bundestag, Norbert Lammert of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is not up for reelection.
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The AfD is now the third largest party in the Bundestag lower house and is polling at around 14%.
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The law, passed in Germany's Bundestag earlier this month, was hailed as a "small revolution" by some intersex activists.
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A weaker Bundeskanzler -- whether it is Merkel or her successor -- cannot impose a costly deal upon a German Bundestag.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany is reluctant to confess to the Bundestag that Greece's bailout loans were always unsustainable.
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Volker Beck, a member of the German Bundestag and a veteran gay rights activist, was among those briefly detained.
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Any upcoming deal on debt will also have to be approved by some European parliaments, including the German Bundestag.
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This has included meddling in elections and hacking the Danish Ministry of Defense and the Bundestag, among many others.
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For the first time in its postwar history, a far-right party won enough votes to enter the Bundestag.
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"Our cyber-defenses are Swiss cheese," said Jacob Schrot, a Bundestag staffer responsible for intelligence oversight and cybersecurity matters.
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Seven parties — spanning the political spectrum — won seats in the Bundestag, Germany's Parliament, complicating talks to form a government.
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Every four years, voters elect members of the Bundestag, the legislative branch of the German government based in Berlin.
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There are 299 constituencies in Germany, so direct votes make up roughly half of the seats in the Bundestag.
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In addition, Mr. Rivlin is to address the German Bundestag, in Hebrew, at Mr. Steinmeier's invitation on Jan. 29.
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The Bundestag must convene within 30 days of the vote but government formation could take up to 100 days.
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Both options lack a majority in the Bundestag and would depend on votes from other parties to pass legislation.
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This has included meddling in elections, and hacking the Danish Ministry of Defense and the Bundestag, among many others.
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"This is about the general direction of a progressive policy," he told reporters before the talks in the Bundestag.
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A year ago, the research group linked Pawn Storm to hacking attacks on the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament.
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After federal elections last September, the AfD became the third-largest party in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament.
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The Social Democrats would face a daunting task to find partners to reach a majority of seats in the Bundestag.
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This means that six parties are expected to enter the Bundestag lower house of parliament, up from the current four.
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At any rate the FDP would not approve a Bundestag vote on further German participation in assistance programmes for Greece.
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Mrs Merkel is loth to test the patience of the Bundestag, where her "grand coalition" has only a modest majority.
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The CDU is the CSU's national sister party, and the two back Mrs Merkel as a bloc in Bundestag elections.
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It also secures Mrs Merkel's reappointment as chancellor, which is expected to take place in the Bundestag on March 673th.
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Russian military intelligence was identified by the German domestic security agency BfV as the actor responsible for the Bundestag breach.
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By tradition the two parties campaign together for the same candidate for chancellor and form one group in the Bundestag.
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They also fear the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, would lose its ability to veto euro zone aid packages.
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Russian military intelligence was identified by the German domestic security agency BfV as the actor responsible for the Bundestag breach.
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The Bundestag passed a series of laws restricting immigration, and it gave enhanced powers to police and intelligence services. Mrs.
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"North Korea's nuclear tests are a flagrant violation of all international conditions," Merkel told the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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One of the first moves of the Bundestag this year was to announce new legislation aimed at countering anti-Semitism.
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It's not hard to imagine a day when the makeup is flipped, and women constitute 70 percent of the Bundestag.
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Legislative sessions, from local councils to the Bundestag, are time-intensive and family-unfriendly, often running late into the night.
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A week earlier Angela Merkel had lambasted the isolationism and protectionism of Donald Trump's America in a speech to the Bundestag.
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"It is the sum of incidents that give cause for serious concern," said Lisa Paus, a member of the German Bundestag.
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One: five or ten years ago it would have been impossible to imagine the Bundestag sending German military contingents into Mali.
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The Network Enforcement Act, commonly referred to as the "Facebook law," was passed by the Bundestag, Germany's parliamentary body, on Friday.
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Triggering an election - the likely consequence of walking out - would probably wipe out large swathes of its representation in the Bundestag.
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The lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, will vote on the extension on Thursday as the suspension is due to expire.
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From 153%, its best-ever result in 2009, it had just missed the 5% hurdle, so fallen out of the Bundestag.
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"I have just heard that the deal with Italy has also been agreed," Seehofer told the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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The next week in the Bundestag he added the phrase "in any form", in defiance of Germany's more than 4m Muslims.
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The letter has been signed by more than 500 members of France's National Assembly, Germany's Bundestag and Britain's House of Commons.
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"Citizens have to pledge allegiance to the state in which they live," demands Volker Kauder, the majority whip in the Bundestag.
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Because the law expires this year, moreover, a new version is now wending its way through the committees of the Bundestag.
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Merz, 63, lost out to Merkel in a power struggle in 2002 and has been out of the Bundestag since 2009.
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To the alarm of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, the anti-immigration AfD is now the third largest party in the Bundestag.
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With seats in eight state parliaments, the party is expected to gain seats in the Bundestag, or national parliament, next year.
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The AfD's entry into the Bundestag, with 28503 of the 22019 seats, does not seem like a political earthquake to outsiders.
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Before Merkel took the podium, the head of the AfD group in the Bundestag said Germany's "domestic peace" was at risk.
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Meanwhile in Germany, the government's move toward using Huawei has run into sharp opposition in the Bundestag, the German federal parliament.
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Since the Krefeld data emerged, there have been hearings about protecting insect biodiversity in the German Bundestag and the European Parliament.
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Mr. Schäuble's appointment as speaker must still be approved by the Bundestag, but he is not likely to face significant opposition.
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Thirty-eight years old, she is of Turkish descent and the first Muslim member of the C.D.U. to enter the Bundestag.
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The three are on track to win a Bundestag majority in September, thanks to the declining fortunes of the Social Democrats (SPD).
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The center-right CDU/CSU bloc will propose Schaeuble as their candidate for the Bundestag post at their next meeting on Oct.
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Yes, the anti-Islam and anti-immigration AfD will win seats in the Bundestag, with an estimated 11-15% of the vote.
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"Europe faces many challenges, but that of migration could become the make-or-break one for the EU," she told the Bundestag.
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The government or the Bundestag can now contact the mediation committee to discuss possible ways of reaching an agreement, the Bundesrat said.
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The AfD, which says Islam is incompatible with the German constitution, is now the third biggest party in the Bundestag lower house.
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The AfD selected Weidel as a top candidate for the Bundestag during its April convention as a compromise with more nationalist factions.
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Today the Bundestag is made up of just four groups: the CDU/CSU, the SPD, the Greens and the socialist Left party.
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Alternative for Germany, an anti-immigration party founded in 2013, got 12.6% of the vote, winning its first seats in the Bundestag.
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The FDP's stellar result saw it comfortably clear the 533% hurdle needed to join (or in this case, re-enter) the Bundestag.
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If you compare the role of the French assemblée nationale with that of the German Bundestag you will understand what I mean.
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So the Greens have been struggling recently: some polls putting them close to the 5% hurdle needed to stay in the Bundestag.
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Infighting continues to mire the AfD, which will probably clear the 5% hurdle and make lots of noise in the next Bundestag.
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The center-right CDU/CSU bloc would propose Schaeuble as their candidate for the Bundestag post in their next meeting on Oct.
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The model that the mediation committee agreed on still needs to be given the green light by both the Bundestag and Bundesrat.
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But Mecklenburg's election increases the temperature of federal politics as Germany prepares to choose the next Bundestag in the autumn of 2017.
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But it will almost certainly enter the Bundestag in the federal election next autumn, turning German politics into a six-party system.
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On June 2nd it was Germany's turn, when its Bundestag passed a resolution calling the killings "genocide" no fewer than four times.
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The AfD made it into the Bundestag for the first time, with a result that could make it the strongest opposition party.
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But it is more likely that he will remain group leader in the Bundestag to ensure the party keeps a distinctive voice.
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The centre-right CDU/CSU bloc will propose Schaeuble as their candidate for the Bundestag post at their next meeting on Oct.
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An upstart politically incorrect party (the Alternative for Germany, AfD) gained its maiden entry into the Bundestag as its third largest faction.
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For the first time, a party was elected to the Bundestag that is openly nationalistic and islamophobic and that advocates historic revisionism.
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This gives it a prized perch from which to hammer Merkel from the far right -- a new, uncomfortable phenomenon in the Bundestag.
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Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht told the Bundestag - Germany's lower house of parliament - that her ministry would begin work on drafting a law.
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Last month, Ms. Merkel's own party ousted Volker Kauder, one of her closest allies in the Bundestag, the lower house of Parliament.
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Bild said the Bundestag would vote on the modified programme for Greece before a federal election due to take place in September.
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The centre-right CDU/CSU bloc would propose Schaeuble as their candidate for the Bundestag post in their next meeting on Oct.
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As dangerous as most Germans see the AfD's Bundestag debut, they didn't think that it would have such an impact so quickly.
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Ms. Merkel's center-right Christian Democrats, the largest party in the Bundestag, perform less well, with about 25 percent in each category.
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Diaby, who was born in Senegal and came to East Germany in 1985 as a student, was elected to the Bundestag in 2013.
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Opinion polls show the AfD winning enough votes to enter the Bundestag lower house of parliament for the first time after September's election.
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There are rumours that you would prefer to be leader of the FDP Bundestag group, even in the event of FDP coalition participation.
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The FDP, which dropped out of the Bundestag on 4.8% of the vote in 2013, was projected to return with a solid 9%.
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Last September the soft-Eurosceptic Free Democrats returned to the Bundestag; the hard-Eurosceptic Alternative for Germany got there for the first time.
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In the absence of a viable majority government, Mrs Merkel could form a minority one, concocting vote-by-vote majorities in the Bundestag.
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And Mrs Merkel's legitimacy is uncontested; she remains the second most popular politician in Germany after Wolfgang Schäuble, the president of the Bundestag.
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At the federal election in 2013 the just-founded AfD narrowly missed the 5% vote share required to make it into the Bundestag.
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This spring the German Bundestag is set to vote on whether the mass killings of Armenians by Turks a century ago constituted genocide.
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The polls indicated two parties FDP and the AfD should enter the Bundestag as they look set to beat the 5-percent threshold.
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Norbert Röttgen, the chairman of the foreign policy committee of the Bundestag, said that for Europeans, Mr. Obama's legacy would remain largely positive.
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Merkel emerged from Sunday's election a weakened figure after her conservatives, still the largest bloc in the Bundestag, bled support to the AfD.
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Her party, the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) is heading towards a landslide victory in the Bundestag (German Parliament) election on September 24th.
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Berlin is quietly storming following the September 24th German parliamentary elections that brought about significant changes in the ideological composition of the Bundestag.
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In a rare and short outburst of passion in the Bundestag this week, Ms. Merkel did give the right answer to the A.f.
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The Bundestag must convene within 30 days of the vote but government formation could take up to 100 days, some analysts have said.
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But in a speech to the Bundestag lower house of parliament on Thursday, Merkel acknowledged that no such compromises were likely in Hamburg.
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But it crashed out of parliament after failing to clear the 5 percent threshold to win seats in the current lower house Bundestag.
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No editorials from leading American or German papers; nothing from Democrats or Republicans on Capitol Hill, nor from members of the German Bundestag.
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Merkel emerged from Sunday's election a weakened figure after her conservatives, still the largest bloc in the Bundestag, bled support to the AfD.
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And the far-right, eurosceptic Alternative for Germany is now the third biggest party in the Bundestag, further curbing Merkel's room for maneuver.
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Now, Merkel is faced with the unenviable task of assembling a new coalition without her principal partner of recent years, the Social Democrats, who having themselves lost 40 seats in the Bundestag in their worst election showing since 1949, announced on election night they would not join Merkel's party in government, instead opting to become the leading opposition movement in the Bundestag.
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Citing security sources, it said the funds had already been quietly approved by the budget committee of the Bundestag, or lower house of parliament.
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Yes, AfD will cross the 5% threshold to win seats in the Bundestag, and yes, given 20th-century history in Germany, that is alarming.
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After the ceremony with Steinmeier, Merkel went on to the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) for the swearing-in of the new justice minister.
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"The 2017 election for the Bundestag will be difficult like no previous election - at least since German reunification" in 1990, Merkel told the conference.
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A year ago, Pawn Storm was linked by the same research group to attacks which compromised computers in the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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Cover image: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) arrives for a session of the German Parliament or Bundestag on September 13, 2018 in Berlin, Germany.
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It would be the first time that a nationalist party has held seats in Germany's legislature, the Bundestag, in more than half a century.
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"So the issue will only be up for debate after the Bundestag election," he told a regular government news conference, referring to the Sept.
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The Alternative for Germany (AfD) made it into the Bundestag for the first time, but not to a degree that truly threatened moderate politics.
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On September 26th, 53 of Mrs Merkel's 246 MPs voted against one of her closest allies staying on as head of the Bundestag group.
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With the other they vote for a regional list from which 299 top-up MPs are drawn to make up the 598-seat Bundestag.
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"That is our aim - that we make them (AfD) smaller and get them out of the Bundestag again insofar as is possible," she said.
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The Bundestag cannot simply dissolve itself if no government is formed, a safeguard installed to prevent a repeat of destabilising Weimar-era snap polls.
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As a result, AFD saw 92 representatives elected in the 2017 national vote and it is now the largest opposition party in the Bundestag.
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Half of the seats in the Bundestag are elected via single-member districts, as in the United States, and no gender quotas are used.
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Traditionally, the anchor of German conservatism in the Bundestag has been the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party of Ms. Merkel's Christian Democrats.
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Joschka Fischer, one of the first Greens elected to Germany's Bundestag (parliament), served as the nation's foreign minister and vice chancellor from 20053-2005.
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Wolfgang Schaeuble, president of the Bundestag lower house of parliament and former finance minister, said Germany had to correct its relatively generous asylum rules.
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"Excluding all investors from a certain country is the wrong approach," Katharina Droege, a Greens lawmaker who co-authored the Bundestag motion, told Reuters.
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Following the German elections in September, Schaeuble was nominated by the majority CDU/CSU parliamentary group to be the next president of the Bundestag.
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After securing 2628 percent of the vote last fall, Die Alternative also holds 28503 seats (out of 22019) in the national legislature, the Bundestag.
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Claudia Roth, the acting speaker of the Bundestag at the time of the session, took Seitz to task for this rare breach of protocol.
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Simply put, Germans vote to decide how the 598 base seats in the Bundestag will be divided among members of Germany's various political parties.
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After World War II, the Federal Republic of Germany transferred power from the President toward the Bundestag and encouraged political majorities to pass legislation.
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Under this scenario, Merkel would remain chancellor as there would be no majority in the Bundestag lower house of parliament for another conservative chancellor.
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Mrs Merkel's writ does not run in her own party, which recently ousted a close ally from his position as parliamentary leader in the Bundestag.
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"If the parties do not succeed in forming a government with the majorities in the Bundestag, then voters will punish them," he told the magazine.
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It fell to Andrea Nahles, the SPD's leader in the Bundestag, to give the storming pro-GroKo speech that Mr Schulz did not quite produce.
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"German exports will increase rather moderately whereas imports will grow more strongly due to robust domestic demand," Gabriel told the Bundestag (lower house of parliament).
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"Germany does not need a strong army for its understanding of sovereignty," says Wolfgang Schäuble, president of the Bundestag and one of Germany's great Francophiles.
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Meanwhile the largest opposition party in the Bundestag will be the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which has picked up support in recent polls.
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Gauland was elected AfD co-leader in December, three months after the party became the third-biggest party in the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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In 2017, it won seats in 14 of the 16 German state parliaments and 93 seats in the Bundestag, becoming the country's third-largest party.
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"I want to make clear that for us the investigation has not been completed," Seehofer told reporters at the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag.
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"If AfD wins double digits in the regional elections, and even someday in Bundestag elections, our society will be transformed in a very negative way."
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The leader of the pro-business Free Democrats, Christian Lindner, said in a tweet his parliamentary group would back Schaeuble as president of the Bundestag.
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This will be a new world for Merkel, who has grown accustomed to cozy coalitions and toothless Bundestag opposition during her 12 years in power.
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It will enter the Berlin parliament for the first time, and is on track to win seats in the Bundestag in next year's federal election.
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And even without plausible alliances between the other parties against her in the Bundestag, opposition to her has been fierce inside her own conservative bloc.
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But Chancellor Angela Merkel opposes same-sex marriage, and her conservative Christian Democrats enjoy a majority in the Bundestag, which must now consider the bill.
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The lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, will have the final say on the continued deployment of up to 800 German troops in the region.
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If Merkel were to lead a minority government, passing legislation in the Bundestag would be a political nightmare given the differences between the several parties.
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For many, the AfD's entrance into the Bundestag brings to mind the dark shadow of the Weimar Republic, its disastrous collapse and all that followed.
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Mr. Lindner rebuilt the Free Democrats from scratch after the party got so few votes in 2013 that it was kicked out of the Bundestag.
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Germany is only now beginning to bolster its cyberdefenses in anticipation, and the Bundestag has just passed legislation to tackle fake news in social media.
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"I find it deeply regrettable that for the first time since 1949 a far-right wing populist party is entering the German Bundestag," McAllister said.
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For example, in Germany, campaign participants helped compel new actions in the Bundestag and the Minister of Development to launch a campaign against child labor.
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The populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) will be the first modern radical right party to enter the Bundestag, the lower house of the German Parliament.
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