Bundestag in a sentence

As acting President of the Bundestag ( Bundestagspräsident ) he delivers the first programmatic speech and oversees the elections of the President of the Bundestag and the Vicepresidents of the Bundestag ( Bundestagsvizepräsidenten ).

The Bundestag can be dissolved by the president on the recommendation of the chancellor if the latter has lost a vote of confidence in the Bundestag, if the recommendation is made and accepted before the Bundestag acts to elect a new Chancellor.

Chancellor Angela Merkel at a debate in the plenary of the German Bundestag, 2014 See the List of Bundestag Members for lists of changes and current members.

In the current Bundestag, there are no such groups (the PDS had only two MPs in parliament until 2005 and could thus not even considered a group anymore; the party has now returned to the Bundestag with full Fraktion status).

The Bundestag members are the only federal officials directly elected by the public; the Bundestag in turn elects the Chancellor and, in addition, exercises oversight of the executive branch on issues of both substantive policy and routine administration.

The decision not to rename the Reichstag building was taken only after long debate in the Bundestag; even then, it is described officially as Reichstag – Sitz des Bundestages main (Reichstag, seat of the Bundestag).

The Fraktion meets every Tuesday afternoon in the weeks in which the Bundestag is in session to consider legislation before the Bundestag and formulate the party's position on it.

The second-highest official in the German order of precedence is the Bundestagspräsident ( President of the Bundestag ), who is elected by the Bundestag and responsible for overseeing the daily sessions of the body.

Thus, it may happen (and has happened) that the old Bundestag gathers and makes decisions even after the election of a new Bundestag that has not gathered in order to constitute itself.

According to a by the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag, high levels of cash holdings reduce the central bank’s “monetary policy steering options,” Gehringer wrote.

A view of the German Reichstag, the seat of the Bundestag, on German Unity Day 2022.

Earlier this year the King won over an audience of politicians in Berlin when he delivered much of his speech to the Bundestag in German.

In the current hour in the German Bundestag, coalition factions have demanded that MPs want to talk about Wednesday’s massacre in the Kiev suburb of Bucha.

King Charles hailed the historic ties between Britain and Germany while lauding their current unity in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in an address to the Bundestag on Thursday on his first state trip overseas as monarch.

The costs of aid to Ukraine were criticized by the independent member of the Bundestag Sarah Wagenknecht.

AfD Bundestag lawmaker Nicole Höchst Saturday, "In Germany, thousands of people fall victim to knife attacks every year.

A German MP has sparked a nationwide wave of cringe after posting a video filled with Gen-Z slang in a ham-fisted attempt to explain the virtues of the Bundestag.

Already, 113 MPs have signed the application and submitted it to Bundestag President Barbel Bas.

But in 2009, when she was first elected to the Bundestag, the German Parliament, she officially reverted to spelling her first name Sahra, as in Farsi, rather than the German Sarah.

Ms. Wagenknecht at the Bundestag in Berlin last June.