“Can you imagine Germany suspended the authority of the länder [federated states] in matters of health in the middle of the coronavirus crisis?”, he asked.

“Germany has the lowest death ratio among the largest European states, he added. “Such a measure of centralizing rocks the constitution.” According to him, large states who have not centralized services and small states such as the Czech Republic, Denmark and Austria are coping better and more efficiently  with the crisis.

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