The East German state feared collapse if it could not hold its most productive citizens.
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We can take this further of course: German state pensions are considerably more generous than the UK system.
Professor Werner Franke first became known when he helped uncover the systematic doping practices of the East German state.
And Lower Saxony, a German state that is a major stakeholder in VW, said it opposes the French deal.
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The German state of Lower Saxony issued its own sukuk bond back in 2004--the first European government to do so.
KfW backs export-oriented firms and small businesses, lending at low rates, and deals with the privatisation of German state-owned enterprises.
Her plan was for the Left Party to prop up the government from outside, giving it a first taste of power in a western German state.
To be clear, the 10bn euros needed by Cyprus's banks is a rounding error in relation to the resources of the European Stability Mechanism or of the German state.
Even voters in North-Rhine Westphalia, the most heavily-populated German state, rejected her party in favour of the Social Democrats (SPD), who promised to go easy on cutting debt.
Last year the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) won 9% of the vote in Saxony, giving it seats in a German state assembly for the first time since 1968.
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The German State Ministry of Economy and Women in Berlin said there were 33 cases of trafficking at the time of the World Cup but only five were directly related to the tournament.
At that time Elf took over one of the biggest businesses in eastern Germany, the Leuna oil refinery and its network of petrol stations, as part of the wholesale privatisation of former East German state assets.
This is exactly the way Porsche, and presumably Mr Piech, want things to be, though they have met resistance from Volkswagen's other major stakeholder, the German state of Lower Saxony, which fears Mr Piech is too powerful.
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Despite the scale of the crisis, Merkel said that "incredible opportunities" were opening up, adding that growing up in East Germany to become the chancellor of a unified German state had proved to her that nothing was impossible.
But this northernmost German state came back into the news when Thilo Weichert, the state's privacy commissioner, raised an issue of such complexity that it will make the first Schleswig-Holstein question look like a dot-to-dot coloring book in comparison.
In the past two weeks, after a long row, the commission has insisted that an illegal subsidy paid to Volkswagen, a German car maker, by the German state of Saxony, one of its largest shareholders, must be paid back.
The latest speculation to circulate through the European market is that German state bank WestLB, which is already facing difficulties in the wake of a trading scandal, is also in serious trouble because of its exposure to America's subprime mortgage market.
But projects such as the Bahnstadt show the energy revolution and European efficiency goals "have put very low energy buildings much more strongly in investors' focus, " said Stephan Sperl, a spokesman for German state lender KfW Bankengruppe, which offers low-interest construction loans for energy-efficient residential buildings.
In a new Bild am Sonntag poll, 66% of Germans opposed any more (German) state aid for GM.
German and Russian state banks agreed to consider setting up a fund to support small business in Russia.
One was the state-owned German bank Hypo Real Estate and another was the state-controlled Greek ATEbank.
State owned German banks doing so?
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The positive labour market data should help boost optimism about the state of the German economy, analysts said.
The product of a merger of five mortgage-bank subsidiaries, it has done well despite the dire state of the German market, largely because much of its portfolio is foreign.
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The two bosses want to replace the current arrangements which give effective joint control to three shareholders - Lagardere, the French state, and German industrial group Daimler, which owns 22.5% of the company.
Certainly experience from abroad does not suggest that state funding is a panacea: the German constitutional court, fearing that parties were becoming over-dependent on public funds, ruled in 1992 that state funding for politics should be reduced.
It has reopened investigations into state aid paid to a German chemical company, Buna, as a sweetener to its prospective purchaser, America's Dow.
Commerzbank said it would issue new shares at a more than 50% discount, as the battered German lender struggles to wean itself off state aid.
The economic contribution of his essay is that it represents the thesis advanced by German economist Georg Friedrich Knapp in The State Theory of Money (1924), an expose advocating the Chartalist approach to monetary theory claiming that money must have no intrinsic value and strictly be used as tokens issued by the government, or fiat money.
German media also reported that Guenther Oettinger, premier of the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, had canceled a meeting with the Briton at this weekend's German Grand Prix at Nurburgring because of his comments about Hitler.
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