Is Bavaria going to quit the Federal Republic of Germany?

On Monday, a German court released a decision saying that the country's constitution does not allow Bavaria to break away. There will be no referendum, the court said, because states are not allowed to leave Germany. read more

Besides, while Germany is a welfare state, the federal government in Berlin relies heavily on corporate tax to pay for its enormous expenditures on social welfare. As Bavaria is among the states that give the most to the German federal government, many Bavarians are getting increasingly fed up with playing “giver” in the federation and subsidizing other “takers”. read more