A quarrel has broken out between German Länder and the German government about who should do what at the European level.
The EU's biggest member state is currently debating how to modernise its federalist system and most of the heads of Germany's 16 Länder are fighting for more power at the EU level.
But the federal government is strongly resisting.
Speaking after a meeting yesterday (6 May), leader of Bavaria - Germany's biggest state - Edmund Stoiber said that particularly...
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