“Bayern should consider making itself independent,” the magazine cited the German politician as saying.

Vogel complained about the fact that other German states often make negative statements about Bayern, but at the same time earn billions as result of the state fiscal equalization.

According to Vogel, Bavaria would do better without Germany.

“Why shouldn’t we strive for independence?” he asked on his Facebook page referring to the case of Scotland.

Recently, there often have been disagreements between Bavarian CSU politicians and the CDU members in the central German government. The reason for this were mostly their different stances towards the current refugee crisis affecting the country.