Bundestag

In a speech to the Bundestag in Berlin, Merkel said the time had come to stop talking about a fiscal union and start creating one.

The official also said the German government must also consult the Bundestag first.

Politicians have had little to say about this in their quest for Bundestag seats.

The CDU and FDP were expected to win 323 out of 614 seats in the new Bundestag, or lower house, giving it a 16-seat majority.

This would have to be authorised by the Bundestag and perhaps other legislatures as well.

To what must be Merkel's consternation, it now appears that the entire German Bundestag will vote yea or nay on the rescue package.

She should be able to get it through the Bundestag without the need for opposition support.

The German Bundestag and the Finnish parliament are not about to vote on whether they are happy to give another loan to Greece.

This would have to be authorised by the Bundestag and perhaps other legislatures.

Resistance in the German Bundestag and elsewhere means that even the partial bail-out measures agreed in July are getting bogged down.

The court is not expected to overturn the measures, but may reinforce the Bundestag's authority over budgetary matters.

But if she loses to Ms Maag she will still return to the Bundestag thanks to her number seven ranking on the SPD list.

This breaks with the principle that it should intervene only as a last resort, admits Norbert Barthle, a CDU member of the Bundestag.

Under this system the Bundestag is meant both to link voters to a local representative and to reflect their overall political preferences.

Now, Germany's increasingly sceptical Bundestag (lower house of parliament) is about to weigh in.

Left Bundestag members and a rising 69 percent of citizens now say they want German soldiers to withdraw from Afghanistan, fast.

Norbert Lammert, the Bundestag's president and a member of the CDU, called for raising taxes on top earners.

The crisis in the euro zone forced Mrs Merkel to push colossal bail-outs through a reluctant Bundestag.

Federal Minister of the appointment and the policy agenda without the approval by the Bundestag.

Now tax relief is "again on the agenda" , promises the FDP's Volker Wissing, head of the Bundestag's finance committee.

Bundestag the right to express no confidence in the Federal Chancellery, and to oust him.

The constitution permits them at national level, but the Bundestag has never enacted further laws to make them possible.

Both measures still are pending approval by some European parliaments, among them Germany's Bundestag.

The CDU president of the Bundestag questions the legality of the moratorium.

What happens this year and next will be decisive, says Rainer Arnold, an SPD member of the Bundestag.

The Bundestag's summer break, which starts later this month, will offer a welcome respite from turmoil.

Merkel's coalition can reject the compromise in the lower house, or Bundestag, which will debate the amended bill on July 8.

The faltering FDP might conceivably be tempted in that direction so as to claw its way back into the Bundestag.

September 22, 1972, Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt confidence motion was proposed by the Bundestag rejected.

Will she not soften her tone once the Bundestag agreed the changes to the EFSF?

In Germany, a third of the Bundestag's members are lawyers.

Each, of course, will require a separate vote in the Bundestag.

The plan authorizes ministers to draft a bill, which is expected to go to the Bundestag, the lower house of Parliament, this summer.

They arranged a city tour for us. So we come to the Bundestag.

The rise of the Left Party makes it more difficult for traditional coalitions such as CDU-FDP to build majorities in the Bundestag.

German unification reduced Bavaria's share of Bundestag seats from 18% to 13%.

The German Party System after the 2002 Bundestag Elections--Continuity or Discontinuity