The Saarland workings are in sandstone, which crumbles and cracks, causing frequent tremors and subsidence.
Tiny Saarland proposes a timid one-year extension of primary school, but may fail to enact the needed constitutional change.
Tiny Saarland, where a novel coalition of the CDU, FDP and Greens fell apart, will hold an early election in March.
He can also imagine Christian Democrats going into state coalitions with the Greens, for instance in the Saarland after an election there next year.
It would also have more than a touch of irony, since the Saarland is the base of Mr Lafontaine, matchmaker to the pink-red get-together in Mecklenburg.
So far the SPD has entered coalitions with the (post-)Communists only at the regional level, an experiment that, following Sunday's elections, will probably be replicated also in Thuringia and Saarland.
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In fact, the government has had only 33 seats there since the Social Democrats lost the Hesse election in February, so it would have had a problem even if Brandenburg and the Saarland had been won.
Charles Stirnweiss, the mayor of Forbach, argues that with the flush of German reunification fading, more German investors seeking lower costs are coming to Lorraine, seeing it almost as a single cross-frontier region with the Saarland.
At the American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting in Philadelphia on Monday, Michael Pfreundschuh of Saarland University Medical School in Homburg, Germany presented similar data showing that closer dosing of chemotherapy was also helpful in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Saarland's CDU government introduced university tuition fees and shut 100 primary schools because there are fewer children to fill them, but that was a big part of the reason the government lost its absolute majority in state elections on August 30th.
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