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Two female state ministers are to tie the knot in the autumn to become Germany’s first homosexual ministerial couple, the illustrated weekly magazine Bunte reports in its current issue which hits the newsstands on Thursday. Josefine Paul and Katja Meier, both members of the Greens, are currently conducting their relationship largely by means of online communication. Paul, 42, serves as family minister in North Rhine Westphalia in the west, and Meier, 44, as justice minister of Saxony in the east. The respective capitals of Dusseldorf and Dresden are almost 500 kilometres apart as the crow flie…

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