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Bid to take cash from financial institution comes as west explores ways to seize assets of Russia’s central bank
...The results suggest that the current governments in both Hesse and Bavaria can continue in their present form: Hesse is run by a CDU-Green coalition, Bavaria by a tie-up between the CSU and the conservative...
...The rail operator had sought in vain to avert the strike by securing a temporary injunction against GDL, but its application in a labour court in the central state of Hesse was turned down....
...The elections in Hesse, in central Germany, and Bavaria in the south were both won by mainstream conservative parties....
...Elections in the central German state of Hesse last year had shown “that we can form a clear right-wing majority....
...Projections from Germany’s public broadcasters put the AfD on 15.5 per cent in Bavaria and on 16.9 per cent in Hesse — their best result in a west German state....
...The three parties performed disastrously in two recent regional elections, in the states of Bavaria and Hesse, which saw a huge rise in support for the AfD....
...That’s how long his Social Democrats (SPD) have been stuck in opposition in Hesse, the central German state which from the 1950s to the late ‘90s was an SPD stronghold, writes Guy Chazan....
...“Let’s hope AfD wins the elections to stop this European suicide,” it said, apparently a reference to critical regional elections in Bavaria and Hesse next Sunday....
...Bavaria and the neighbouring state of Hesse go to the polls on Sunday in elections that are being seen as a referendum on chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government....
...“The mood in the country threatens to tip over,” said Peter Beuth, interior minister of the western region of Hesse....
...Guy Chazan has more details from Berlin. 2. Metro Bank has struck a financing deal with investors after a weekend of negotiations that should give the UK challenger bank some breathing space....
...Nancy Faeser, a lawyer who leads the Social Democrats in the southern state of Hesse, will become interior minister, overseeing the federal police force and domestic intelligence....
...Nancy Faeser, a lawyer who leads the SPD in the southern state of Hesse, will become Germany’s first female interior minister, overseeing the federal police force and domestic intelligence....
...Peter Beuth, Hesse’s interior minister, said Monday’s arrest exonerated the Hesse police....
...In 11 instances, Hesse had flouted regulations and neglected to follow procedures prescribed by the church....
...The prime minister of Hesse, Volker Bouffier, yesterday became the latest regional governor to come out in favour of obligatory jabs....
...It was also announced on Wednesday that investigators are probing a number of police officers in the western state of Hesse who belonged to an elite unit known as the Special Operations Command, or SEK,...
...If you watch often enough, you recognise the regulars, like the guy in the cowboy hat whooping along the wave towards the pier....
...Times have changed — the conservatives already govern with the eco-party in the two western states of Baden-Württemberg and Hesse. And coalitions “are possible on the federal level in Berlin, too”....
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Victims shot dead at two bars in city of Hanau, near Frankfurt
...Volker Bouffier, prime minister of the central state of Hesse, said there had been talk of “revolution” ahead of the party meeting....
...In June, Germans were shocked by the killing of Walter Lübcke, a local official in the central region of Hesse and the first German politician in the country’s postwar history to be assassinated by a rightwing...
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