For Top Minister Alexander Schweitzer, Rhineland-Palatinate is one thing of a supply of concepts for the Top Minister’s Convention as an advisory frame for the federal states. “We are something like the inventors of the prime minister’s conference,” mentioned an SPD flesh presser in Mainz, recalling the so-called Knight’s Autumn Convention of 1948.
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It used to be named after the Ritterrutsch Lodge on the gate of the then capital of Rhineland-Palatinate, Koblenz. 11 West German top ministers met there in July 1948 on the invitation of Rhineland-Palatinate Top Minister Peter Altmeier (CDU) and mentioned the merger of the 3 western profession zones. The convention is regarded as a turning level on methods to the established order of the Federal Republic.
Change between the states has a excellent custom in Rhineland-Palatinate, Schweitzer mentioned. “Then it was a federal step that brought Germany forward. This week the Heads of Government of the Federal States meet in Mainz at the Premier Conference (MPC). Rhineland-Palatinate has held the rotating presidency of the MPC since the beginning of October.”
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