The pair form the state of Bremen, the tiniest of Germany's 16 lander.

这对城市组成了不莱梅州，是联邦德国16个州里最小的一个。

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Bremen, a city-state, wants a climate in which such pronouncements are too obvious to be worth making.

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Her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was pushed into third place behind the Social Democrats and the Greens in Bremen in May for the first time at state level.

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The Bremen grand alliance, which took over when the little state of 674, 000 people was in the economic doldrums, has rather unexpectedly proved a boon.

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