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Thank you Sky ... so one person, in this case Merkel, can tell the other federal states to stay home and wear mask?
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No she can't. The federal states decide independently from federal legislation in certain fields of politics: Education (schools and universities), police (but there is a additional federal police that addresses for example terrorism but at the same time fights pickpockets at the local railway station, because the railway infrastructure is considered federal property, it's really weird) and health care. The anti corona measures are strictly put into effect on the state level. The federal administration could declare a national emergency, but this has never happened and it won't happen in the corona crisis, because that would bring about some very nasty consequences.