Federalism – a security risk? The ‘Klartext!’ column by Wolfgang Bosbach

Ever since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and the struggle to identify the right measures to combat it, we have once again been discussing the pros and cons of the federal system as it currently exists. When 16 federal states – some of which are very different – adopt sets of regulations, and not even virologists with sound legal knowledge can explain without confusion why certain rules apply where – that is when, at the very latest, calls for greater uniformity and clarity ring out from one end of the country to the other. In other words: for regulations that are uniform across the country.

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