Despite the federal government's strong support for science and higher education, the crisis in Germany's public finances is starting to take its toll, as cash-poor states prepare to cut university budgets.rnIn the state of Schleswig-Holstein last week, thousands rallied in the capital, Kiel, to protest against the imminent closure of the medical school at the University of Liibeck. "We will have to stop the enrolment of medical students as from the winter term 2011," says Rolf Hilgenfeld, a structural virologist at the university. "This is outrageous." And researchers in Luebeck and elsewhere fear worse is to come.
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