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Links to German government executive, legislative, and judicial sites; law and political party sites. For a Library of Congress resource on German law, consult the Germany section of the Guide to Law Online, at the Global Legal Information Network site.
Bund.de (http://www.bund.de)
Portal of the Federal Government. A gateway to information on the German federal government and other public agencies and administrative bodies throughout Germany--including the federal states, research institutes, cultural organizations, and social service agencies. Multilingual section offers selected topics in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese. Provides information for foreigners who wish to live or work in Germany temporarily or permanently, and for foreign companies with business relations with Germany. The German-language Web portal is organized around life events, business areas, fields of activity, and other topics.
Bundesregierung (http://www.bundesregierung.de/Webs/Breg/EN/Homepage/home.html)
German Federal Government. Provides profiles of the current chancellor and previous officeholders; links to the cabinet, ministries, and news. In English, French, German, and Spanish (content varies according to language).
Constitution Finder. Germany (http://confinder.richmond.edu/country.php)
Includes links to Germany's Basic Law, Weimar Constitution, and the Constitution of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) of 1968.
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Bundesrat (http://www.bundesrat.de/Site/Inhalt/EN/index,templateId=renderStartseiteKomplett.html)
German Parliament (Federal Council, upper house). Links to press releases; legislative agenda; schedule of state (Land) elections; full-text documents; profiles of delegates, committees, and current and former presidents; general information on federalism and constitutional functions; profiles of the federal states. In German and English.
Deutscher Bundestag (http://www.bundestag.de)
German Parliament (Federal Diet, lower house). Description of the German legislative process; profiles of delegates and their election returns; descriptions of party groups and parliamentary bodies; press releases, current legislative agenda, and records of proceedings (Plenarprotokolle); links to databases for texts of laws and other legislation; links to other European national parliaments and to the European Parliament; link to Bundestag Library and online catalog; live video of parliamentary sessions. In German, selected content in English and French.
Bundespräsident (http://www.bundespraesident.de)
Federal President. Profiles and photos of past and current presidents; description of the office and its administration; speeches and quotes. In German, English, French and Spanish.
Bundesverfassungsgericht (http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de)
Federal Constitutional Court. Links include description of functions; profiles of judges; current news and press releases; searchable database of decisions since January 1, 1998; constitutional organs and federal courts in Germany, international courts, and the supreme courts of other countries. In German.
Governments on the WWW: Germany (http://gksoft.com/govt/en/de.html)
Includes links to government institutions, representations in foreign countries, and political parties.
Parteien-Online.de (http://www.parteien-online.de)
Links to the home pages of Germany's accredited political parties.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments:
Germany (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/world-leaders-g/germany.html)
Online directory of key leaders of foreign governments. Follows transliteration systems generally agreed upon by U.S. Government agencies, except in cases in which officials have stated a preference for alternate spellings of their names.
U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices 2004; Germany (http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41683.htm)
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress. The reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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