The plans are similar to a draft law unveiled in neighbouring Baden-Wuerttemberg last month.

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But the Government of Baden-Wuerttemberg in southern Germany, which refused her employment, said the headscarf violates children's right to a religiously neutral education.

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Bavaria, after Baden-Wuerttemberg, is the second state to propose a ban.

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The party has also given notice that the issue will be a major topic in the local elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg later this month.

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The Christian Democrats, while still floundering nationally in the wake of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's financial scandals, took heart from the fact that they kept their hold on Baden-Wuerttemberg.

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On top of that, there are persistent wide differences between pockets of poverty in the old East Germany and the booming South-West of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg, 20 years after unification.

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Thirty-one-year-old Fereshta Ludin, who was denied a job in Baden-Wuerttemberg in 1998 because she wore a headscarf in school, went to courts arguing that the German constitution guaranteed her religious freedom.

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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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