The state-backed development lender founded in 1948 - even before the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany - is 80%-owned by the federal government and the states own the rest.
"Ladies and gentlemen, an eventful day has ended and Christian Wulff is the president of the Federal Republic of Germany, " she said.
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The EFOY is also standard equipment as back-up power for federal troops in Germany, because it reduces on-the-move weight compared to diesel generators.
Mr. KARSTEN VOIGT (Coordinator, German-American Cooperation, Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany): The mood is that the Germany is soft on Iran.
Dr. Angela Merkel came to symbolize the triumph of freedom by becoming the first East German to serve as chancellor of a united Federal Republic of Germany.
Member nations are: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.
There is a sense that many things are being put on hold until after next year's federal elections in Germany but Mr Meister supports the chancellor's broad vision of a political union in Europe.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles said Sven Koppler was caught after he had posted tarantulas from Germany to federal agents posing as buyers.
He admits that the board is loosely based on the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in Britain and the Federal Joint Committee in Germany.
His other decorations include Germany's Federal Order of Merit and France's Officier de la Legion d'Honneur.
In Germany , the federal government has asked the states to buy vaccine for every resident.
The move left thousands of workers there in limbo , just days before Germany's federal elections.
And this week they agreed on how to reform Germany's federal system, and on a corporate-tax cut.
Then there is the reform of Germany's federal system to make it easier to respond to change.
But regulators such as Peter Schaar, who heads Germany's federal data-protection agency, say the gulf is exaggerated.
Germany had a federal property tax, until judges ruled it unconstitutional in 1995.
The warning about the novel strain of ransomware was issued by Germany's Federal Criminal police office (the Bundeskriminalamt or BKA).
One oft-cited explanation for this is Germany's federal system, which gives the opposition a de facto veto over tax changes.
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And even though Germany's federal government tends to keep its hands off these days, its regional governments can take a different view.
Germany's Federal Labour Agency said the seasonally-adjusted jobless rate was unchanged in December, having added 3, 000 more unemployed people than the previous month.
Similarly, Germany's Federal Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that regarding an operation as a precondition for a legally valid sex change was increasingly problematic.
Figures from Germany's Federal Statistics Office showed that producer prices in Europe's biggest economy rose 1.1% in April, from March, for a 5.2%, annual gain.
However, the head of the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany, Joerg Ziercke, said there was no definitive scientific proof as Priklopil was no longer alive.
In November the president of Germany's federal police complained that the encryption technology used by Skype makes it impossible for his officers to listen in on conversations.
But, on the whole, Germany's federal devolution has worked too.
Being Germany's federal president is not such an easy job.
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If its plan succeeds, the party will consolidate its power next year before Germany's federal election in 2009, after which Mr Huber may go to Berlin as finance minister.
The window is crafted to look like it has been put together by Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BKI) and its society for prosecution of copyright infringement (GVU).
In effect, Bundesrat members act as delegates for their regional governments (which themselves are enormously powerful in Germany's federal system) and are often the key figures in those governments.
Germany's Federal Labor Agency predicts a sharp rise in unemployment this fall, with the number of people on the dole climbing to 4.5 million next year from about 3.4 million now.
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