Saarland

Like the rest of Germany, Saarland is now praying that the recovery will be sufficiently swift and strong to stave off mass unemployment.

But a second glance at Saarland tells you that crisis-management is not all that matters.

SAARLAND, the smallest German state without the excuse of being just a city, is a thumbnail caricature of Germany.

In Saarland, for example, the hottest issue seems to be whether towns, to save money, may have to close their swimming pools.

Computer scientists at Saarland University, Germany, have developed a wireless bicycle brake they say could revolutionise control systems.

The Saarland and Thuringia defeats have provoked calls for a sharper message from worried CDU leaders.

Tiny Saarland proposes a timid one-year extension of primary school, but may fail to enact the needed constitutional change.

"Saarland competed as a team in the qualifying rounds for the 1954 World Cup, " writes Graham Clayton.

So Saarland's towns are wondering whether it is worth spending money on swimming pools when the number of children is falling.

For decades the thick coal seams underneath it made Saarland a pawn in the power-games of Germany and France.

LAST year a collapse in a coal mine triggered a small earthquake in Saarland, a speck of a state near Germany's border with France.

In November voters in Ensdorf, in the Saarland, blocked the construction of a euro 2 billion ($2. 9 billion) coal-fired plant.

On August 30th Saarland may set off a man-made quake that could reverberate even farther.

Saarland's economic growth has been the second-fastest among German states since 2000, thanks to booms in steel, cars and machinery.

In the same year in October, Songliao oil battle command authority moved to Saarland map.

the morning train to Germany, then arrived in Germany Saarland Nuoyin Ji shangxingzhen, by local protesters blocked.