On April 1st RWE, which runs five nuclear plants, challenged the shutdown in a court in Hesse, a state which is home to two of them.
Hans Eichel, a former premier of the state of Hesse, became Germany's finance minister after Oskar Lafontaine resigned.
And the state of Hesse said this week that it would change the law governing its publicly owned savings banks.
The consequences will be felt far beyond the state of Hesse.
The regional government in the state of Hesse recommended the main skyscrapers in Frankfurt, Germany's financial capital and home to the European Central Bank, close on Wednesday.
The documentary by state broadcaster ARD showed the conditions of employees at the warehouse in Bad Hersfeld, in the state of Hesse, brought in to help with the Christmas rush.
In recent weeks, any setback for the bid has given a fillip to the German firm's share-price, mostly recently when the finance minister of the exchange's home state of Hesse condemned it.
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The film showed the living and working conditions of agency workers brought in to help with the Christmas rush, principally at an Amazon warehouse in Bad Hersfeld, in the state of Hesse.
Their poll ratings are at least as high as those of Mr Kohl's unsettled Christian Democrats, a standing that last weekend's local elections in the state of Hesse, which many voters ignored, did nothing to alter.
It is a chance Mr Fischer has spent much of his life working for, as environment minister in the state of Hesse and most recently as the Greens' parliamentary leader in Bonn, and he is desperately anxious it should not slip away.
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But on January 18th the FDP came close, taking 16.2% of the vote in a state election in Hesse.
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Though tainted by a local scandal, Roland Koch, the young state premier of Hesse, has just been boosted by a remarkable vote of confidence from 98% of his local party people.
Nine months after an election in Hesse had produced a tie between the two main parties, the state legislature was due to replace Roland Koch, boss of the local Christian Democratic Union (CDU), as premier and to install Andrea Ypsilanti, leader of the state's Social Democrats (SPD), in his place.
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