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Achtung! The 眉ber-Bundestag is comingA handy guide to how Germans will pick a big parliament and a chancellor.ListenAI generated Text-to-speechCopy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInThe peculiarities of Germany s voting system mean that the number of members of the Bundestag fluctuates | Tobias Schwartz/AFP via Getty Images September 26, 20214:00 am CETBy Laurenz GehrkeBERLIN 鈥擶e may not ye stanley cup t know the identity of Germany next chancellor, but it almost certain that they ;ll be elected by a parliament that even bigger than today .Germany isn ;t getting any larger, but the peculiarities of its voting system mean that the number of members of the Bundestag fluctuates.German voters cast two ballots, one for a candidate in their local constituency and a second for a party. If a party wins more seats via the former than the latter, a process is triggered whereby it gets to keep those seats and other parties are compensated for the imbalance this creates. AdvertisementAdvertisementConfused You ;re not alone. The system is so arcane that few Germans understand the mechanics. But politicians can ;t agree on a fundamental reform because no one wants to risk losing seats, even though the parliament expanded to stanley italy a record 709 seats at the last election. They tried last year, but the changes will do little stanley cup to halt the Bundestag bulge.Based on current polls, my prediction is that the n Vdjx The next generation prepares to take over
Dispute over call to revamp committeesUK SOCIALIST MEP Ken Collins has stirred up a furious debate among his colleagues in the European Parliament by calling for a radical overhaul of the institution committee structure.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInOctober 21, 19985:00 pm CETBy Rory WatsonThe long-serving chairman of the Parliament environment committee, who plans to retire ne stanley canada xt June, is recommending that the number of specialised committees which scrutinise draft European Union legislation should be drastically reduced and their remits redrawn. The main problem is that the committee structure we have now has grown up in an ad hoc way over the years with no one stopping to think what the Parliament should be doing. Wi stanley tumbler th the Amsterdam Treaty coming into force and the European elections next June, we now have an opportunity to review it, he explained.Pressure for change is coming from the fact that some committees have a relatively light workload while others are overburdened, and a growing awareness that as the Parliament takes on new responsibilities, existing staff need to be better deployed.Under the new structure proposed by Collins, there would be just 14 or 15 committees instead of the 23 including stanley ca subcommittees which now exist. This would mean the end of separate committees for external relations, petitions, budgetary control, fisheries, research and technology, transport and wome |
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