Unlike Spain, despite regions with personality as Bavaria, Germany is clearly a state uninational.

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In recent years we have seen some decisions of the German government have marked the policy of the European Union and, ultimately, the countries of southern Europe, most affected by the economic crisis. However, contrary to what is commonly thought, statistics the power of the Chancellor is not omnipotent, but there are multiple internal statistics balances. Different regions involved in the formation process of the decisions of the state through institutionalized mechanisms. This is why when some people ask Spain to reform the federal constitution in a sense, put as a reference model for Germany.
In Germany there is a centralist tradition. Not surprisingly, the desire centralization was one of the causes of the world wars. Concern by the allies prevent Germany dominating Europe led Western powers to create a new state division in federal states (Länder). This is why, prior to unification in West Germany (1949), the occupants of the capitalist bloc in 1946 divided the territories occupied in several different sub-state entities. In some cases retreated territorial units or very old medieval kingdoms (the case of Bavaria is the best example), but also new states were created artificially, statistics easily identifiable by their names compounds (North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden -Württemberg, etc).
Moreover, once the most powerful state of the German Empire, Prussia, was formally dissolved in 1947. It could prevent a territory covering more than 30% of the area or the population Therefore, it could dominate the country. The FRG is therefore an invention engineering institutional allies. Länder: regional powers constituents
The sixteen Länder or states that make up the Federal Republic of Germany has a high level of sovereignty. The German Constitution (Fundamental Law of Bonn, 1949) defines clearly what skills are owned by federal, remaining under the control of other states. Also recognize shared powers between statistics the states and run the federation, but always so delimited.
We talk, in fact, the original subjects of international statistics law, which means that they can make their voice heard in the European institutions directly. In fact, giarebé all states have a ministry for European Affairs. We can not ignore, for example, North Rhine-Westphalia, with almost 18 million statistics inhabitants, has more representatives in Brussels Holland and, therefore, more voice in the EU through statistics mechanisms viersos lobbístics well as a recognized role in the Committee of the Regions. In fact, much of European money is received directly by the states, bypassing the federation.
Moreover, the various ministries of the German statistics federal states not only have the ability to make their voices heard directly in Europe. They also have offices in Berlin, even in areas such as defense and foreign statistics affairs. They have, therefore, a crucial role in the formation of the will of the state and the public, and even there is some mutual competition to mark the agenda of the central state.
Unlike Spain, despite regions with personality as Bavaria, Germany is clearly a state uninational. This is embodied in a federal symmetric model, the justification of which resides in a historical situation (administrative statistics medieval tradition and, above all, the interests of international powers) statistics than on the need to integrate statistics various national communities yes its different way, as in the case of Canada or the demands of the different Spanish territories statistics with the aim of self-government. This is why it is the German state that gives certain powers while the rest remain in the hands of the various Länder.
However, this does not mean the recognition of the uniqueness of some states that, in practice, does not translate into significant differences in skills but in the name of their institutions. Of the sixteen states, three are known as city-states (Berlin and Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Bremen) statistics and the other, the territories surface (Flächenländer), three or declare Freistaat free state (Bavaria, Saxony Thuringia). The Senate German: a true chamber of territorial representation