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GERMANY POLITICS GREEN GOVERNOR

epa02704586 Designated Prime Minister of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Winfried Kretschmann (The Greens), presents the coalition agreement at the Haus der Architekten in Stuttgart, Germany, 27 April 2011. Kretschmann is Germany's first 'Green' party Federal State Governor. EPA/MARIJAN MURAT

GERMANY POLITICS GREEN GOVERNOR

epa02704548 Designated Baden-Wuerttemberg state governor Winfried Kretschmann (L), of The Greens party, and the German Federal state's regional Social Democratic Party (SPD) chairman Nils Schmid (R) present the coalition agreement after a news conference at the 'Haus der Architekten' in Stuttgart, Germany, 27 April 2011. Kretschmann is Germany's first 'Green' party Federal State Governor. EPA/MARIJAN MURAT

FILE GERMANY POLITICS GUTTENBERG RESIGNATION

epa02608908 (FILE) A file picture dated 21 January 2011 shows German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg closing his jacket at the Bundestag in Berlin, Germany. German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who has been embroiled in a plagiarism scandal, will resign on 01 March, German 'Bild' newspaper reported. He has already handed in his resignation to Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to the newspaper. President Christian Wulff has also reportedly been informed of the decision. Guttenberg is scheduled to make a statement later on 01 March, the defence ministry said. EPA/RAINER JENSEN

GERMANY POLITICS GUTTENBERG

German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg speaks at a Christian Social Union (CSU) party event in Kelkheim, Germany, 21 February 2011. Embattled German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg requested the revocation of his PhD degree on 21 February after a week of allegations that he committed plagiarism as a student to obtain it. His alma mater, the University of Bayreuth, said it received his written request to withdraw the degree because of "serious errors of skill" in the 2006 doctoral thesis. The college had earlier launched a full-scale inquiry into his degree. EPA/MARIUS BECKER RETRANSMISSION TO ADD NEW INFORMATION

GERMANY POLITICS GUTTENBERG

German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg follows the debate at a Christian Social Union (CSU) party event in Kelkheim, Germany, 21 February 2011. Embattled German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg requested the revocation of his PhD degree on 21 February after a week of allegations that he committed plagiarism as a student to obtain it. His alma mater, the University of Bayreuth, said it received his written request to withdraw the degree because of "serious errors of skill" in the 2006 doctoral thesis. The college had earlier launched a full-scale inquiry into his degree. EPA/MARIUS BECKER TRANSMISSION TO ADD NEW INFORMATION

GERMANY POLITICS

epa02585429 German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg at the Chancellory in Berlin, Germany on 16 February 2011 during the cabinet meeting. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, considered the country‘s most popular politician, has been accused of plagiarism in his doctoral thesis, media reported 16 February 2011. Several passages of Guttenberg‘s thesis were "brazen plagiarism" and "a deceit," according to law professor Andreas Fischer-Lescano, cited in daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Lengthy passages of Guttenberg‘s paper, drawing legal comparisons between the United States and the European Union, were almost identical to previously published texts by other authors, but lacked..citation, the paper reported. EPA/WOLFGANG KUMM

GERMANY POLITICS LABOUR

epa02568411 German Labour minister Ursula von der Leyen, faces the media in Berlin on early 7 February 2011, after representatives of the German government and the opposition were unable to reach a compromise over benefit payments for the long-term unemployed. The negotiations are a test of strength for Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose coalition of the Christian Union and Free Democrats last year lost its majority in the Bundesrat. EPA/Herbert Knosowski

GERMANY POLITICS SCHAEUBLE

epa02361866 German Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schaeuble attends a press conference in Berlin, Germany, 28 September 2010. Minister Schaeuble was admitted to hospital shortly after the same day for four weeks due to complications following an operation earlier this year, a spokesman for the finance ministry told the German Press Agency dpa. He is to conduct his official business from hospital, the ministry said. EPA/TOBIAS KLEINSCHMIDT

FILE GERMANY POLITICS

epa02361854 (FILE) A file picture dated 16 September 2010 of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in the German Bundestag in Berlin, Germany. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was admitted to hospital on 28 September 2010 for four weeks due to complications following an operation earlier this year, a spokesman for the finance ministry told the German Press Agency dpa. EPA/RAINER JENSEN FILE

TURKEY GERMANY POLITICS ISTANBUL

epa02263579 German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (R) and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu (L) admire the city view and Bosphorus prior to their breakfast meeting in Istanbul, Turkey on 28 July 2010. Westerwelle is in Turkey for 2 days official visit. EPA/KERIM OKTEN

GERMANY POLITICS

epa02189466 German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (L) arrive for a statement ahead of a federal government's two-day retreat in Berlin, Germany, 06 June 2010. The federal cabinet holds a two-day retreat to discuss on the 2011 federal budget and cost-cutting measures. EPA/STEPHANIE PILICK

GERMANY POLITICS

epa02189463 German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (R) gesture cluelessly during a statement ahead of a federal government's two-day retreat in Berlin, Germany, 06 June 2010. The federal cabinet holds a two-day retreat to discuss on the 2011 federal budget and cost-cutting measures. EPA/STEPHANIE PILICK

GERMANY POLITICS

epa02189461 German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (R) smile during a statement ahead of a federal government's two-day retreat in Berlin, Germany, 06 June 2010. The federal cabinet holds a two-day retreat to discuss on the 2011 federal budget and cost-cutting measures. EPA/STEPHANIE PILICK

GERMANY POLITICS

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, front, faction leader of the German Social Democratic Party, gestures during his speech at the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag) in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Sitting in the background are German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

GERMANY POLITICS

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen during her speech at the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag) in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

GERMANY POLITICS

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen during her speech at the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag) in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

GERMANY POLITICS

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen during her speech at the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag) in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

GERMANY POLITICS

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen during her speech at the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag) in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

GERMANY POLITICS ILLEGAL PARTY SPONSORING

epa02073318 North Rhine Westphalia's Prime Minister Juergen Ruettgers (CDU) attends a session of the state parliament ('Landtag') in Duesseldorf, Germany, 10 March 2010. Illegal party sponsoring allegations against Ruettgers' Christian Democratic Union (CDU) were on the agenda of the day's session. Opposition parties harshly critised Ruettgers for not telling the public what he knew about his party illegally selling photo calls and other appointments with himself. EPA/ACHIM SCHEIDEMANN

GERMANY POLITICS ILLEGAL PARTY SPONSORING

epa02073316 North Rhine Westphalia's Prime Minister Juergen Ruettgers (CDU) attends a session of the state parliament ('Landtag') in Duesseldorf, Germany, 10 March 2010. Illegal party sponsoring allegations against Ruettgers' Christian Democratic Union (CDU) were on the agenda of the day's session. Opposition parties harshly critised Ruettgers for not telling the public what he knew about his party illegally selling photo calls and other appointments with himself. EPA/ACHIM SCHEIDEMANN

GERMANY POLITICS CSU

epa01142070 The new CSU chairman Erwin Huber opens the constituting session of the party's chair with a bell while CSU general secretary Markus Soeder is pictured in the back in Munich, Germany, 08 October 2007. Besides actual topics regarding the programme for the coming weeks Huber is scheduled to speak about his recent talks in Brussels. EPA/PETER KNEFFEL

GERMANY POLITICS MEETING

epa00991609 (L-R) British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stand together after their joint press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, 24 April 2007. In the focus of their talks were European issues and the development of Africa. EPA/Rainer Jensen

GERMANY POLITICS

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP ** German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts during a German Bundestag parliamentary budget debate in Berlin on Wednesday, March 29, 2006. (AP Photo/ Jan Bauer)

GERMANY POLITICS BUDGET 2005

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder delivers a speech in the German parliament in Berlin, Germany on Wednesday, 24 November 2004, during the Budget 2005 debate. EPA/Bernd Settnik

GERMANY POLITICS

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, left, talks to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, right, prior to the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting, in Berlin, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns)

GERMANY POLITICS

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer listens to the debate in Berlin Parliament Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004, on Turkey policy of the EU. (AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil)

GERMANY POLITICS

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder carries his files on his way to the weekly cabinet meeting in his chancellery in Berlin on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2004. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)

GERMANY POLITICS ELECTIONS BAVARIA

Bavaria's conservative state Premier Edmund Stoiber of the Christian Social Union (CSU) smiles broadly while addressing journalists at a press conference in Munich, 22 September 2003. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (R) and his Social Democratic Party top candidate in the local Bavarian elections, Franz Maget suffered a humiliating defeat Sunday when voters in Bavaria handed conservative state Premier Edmund Stoiber's Christian Social Union (CSU) a record-setting 62 per cent win to the SPD's 18.5per cent. EPA PHOTO/DPA/GERO BRELOER//

GERMANY POLITICS

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, right, and Finance Minister Hans Eichel, left, hold a news conference in Berlin on Wednesday, July 16, 2003, focussing on the agenda 2010 and tax reform in Germany. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)

GERMANY POLITICS

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder speaks in the Berlin "Tempodrom" on the 140th anniversary of the German Social Democratic Party, SPD, Friday, May 23, 2003. The sentence on the speakers desk read: "140 years renewal ".(AP Photo/Fritz Reiss)

GERMANY POLITICS

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder thanks the audience after he finished his speech at the 140th anniversary of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin, Friday, May 23, 2003. Several thousand guests joined in the celebration. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns)

GERMANY POLITICS REFORMS

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder gestures as he presents his 'Agenda 2010' reform plans in Hamburg during a regional conference of his Social Democratic Party SPD on Wednesday, 07 May 2003. Support for German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats plunged further a poll showed Wednesday amid bitter wrangles over proposed economic liberalisation moves. EPA PHOTO DPA Kay Nietfeld

GERMANY POLITICS SCHROEDER

BER83 - 20030428 - BERLIN, GERMANY : German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder leaves the podium after a press conference to inform media of his Social Democratic Party meeting on Monday, 28 April 2003. Schroeder hinted Monday that he may resign if dissenters in his Social Democrats (SPD) party succeed in blocking a controversial social and economic reform package designed to boost the flagging German economy. Schroeder pointedly warned opponents of his so-called Agenda 2010 reform package, which is designed to cut Berlin's alarming public deficit and reduce high unemployment, that its foundations "could not be brought into question". EPA PHOTO DPA/WOLFGANG KUMM/wk hpl mda

GERMANY POLITICS SCHROEDER

BER80 - 20030428 - BERLIN, GERMANY : German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder speaks during a press conference to inform media of his Social Democratic Party meeting on Monday, 28 April 2003. Schroeder hinted Monday that he may resign if dissenters in his Social Democrats (SPD) party succeed in blocking a controversial social and economic reform package designed to boost the flagging German economy. Schroeder pointedly warned opponents of his so-called Agenda 2010 reform package, which is designed to cut Berlin's alarming public deficit and reduce high unemployment, that its foundations "could not be brought into question". EPA PHOTO DPA/WOLFGANG KUMM/wk hpl mda

GERMANY POLITICS

German Minister of Environment, Juergen Trittin, arrives in the Berlin Chancellory prior to the weekly cabinet meeting Wednesday, July 31, 2002. German newspaper "Bild" reported Wednesday, that Trittin allegedly has used bonus miles from business flights for private purpose. (AP Photo/Sven Kaestner)

GERMANY POLITICS

An unidentified Jew listens to the debate in the Berlin Reichstag, Wednesday, June 5, 2002, on anti Jewish remarks made by FDP Free Democrats Party member Jamal Karsli. (AP Photo/Fritz Reiss)

GERMANY POLITICS

Germany's Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer waits for the start of the weekly cabinet meeting in the Chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, March 20, 2002. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck)

GERMANY POLITICS

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder speaks during an agricultural policy conference of the Social Democratic faction of the German Bundestag in Haldensleben, eastern Germany, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2002. In the background part of conference slogan reads "Competent...". (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz)

GERMANY-POLITICS/WOWEREIT

BER85 - 20020117 - BERLIN, GERMANY : Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit (L) of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) with parliament speaker Walter Momper as a new government for the financial crisis-hit German capital is voted into office 17 January 2002. EPA PHOTO DPA/PEER GRIMM

GERMANY-POLITICS/GYSI

BER80 - 20020117 - BERLIN, GERMANY : Gregor Gysi of the ex-communist Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) is congratulated by parliament speaker Walter Momper (R) as a new government for the financial crisis-hit German capital, led by Social Democrats (SPD) with the PDS as their coalition partner, was voted into office 17 January 2002. The PDS has three of the cabinet posts, with the party's most prominent figure, Gregor Gysi, being put in charge of the economy. EPA PHOTO DPA/PEER GRIMM

GERMANY POLITICS

The sun sets over the German parliament, Bundestag, at left, and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's offices, right, on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2001, the day before the German parliament will decide on the vote of confidence in Schroeder's three-year old government. In a bold move to overcome opposition within his governing coalition over German deployment in the war against terrorism Schroeder had linked parliament's vote on the issue to a vote of confidence. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)

GERMANY POLITICS

Hamburg's major Ortwin Runde gestures during his speech while an election campaign event of the Social Democrats (SPD) in Hamburg, northern Germany, on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2001. Some 1,25 million citiziens are entitled to vote a new local parliament at the state elections in Hamburg on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2001. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer)

GERMANY POLITICS

Edmund Stoiber, state governor of Bavaria and leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) delivers his speech at the 13th party convention of German Christian Democrats in Essen on Tuesday, April 11, 2000. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

GERMANY-POLITICS-GEISSLER

FKM14 - 19990530 - BERLIN, GERMANY : File picture dated 30 May 1999 of former German Health Minister Heiner Geissler. Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl and close aides including Geissler are coming under pressure to reveal what they know about secret illicit funding of their Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party over the years. In a growing scandal for Kohl and the CDU, the respected Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported Friday 26 November 1999 that raids on five different addresses in Barvaria the week before turned up documents from a parallel CDU accounting system. EPA PHOTO DPA/KLAUS FRANKE/dt-cl

GERMANY POLITICS ULTRA RIGHT

Sandwiched between two unidentified bodyguards Liane Hesselbarth, center, a member of the far right German Peoples Party, in the parliament house in Potsdam, Germany, on Wednesday, September 29, 1999. Hesselbarth is one of five members of the DVU, which where elected to the Brandenburg state parliament on September 5, 1999. The new parliament has it's constituing session, Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sven Kaestner)

GERMANY POLITICS

Chancellor-elect Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder, right, flashes victory signs after his speech at the special party convention in Bonn Sunday October 25, 1998, as party chairman Oskar Lafontaine applauds. Members of the convention later the day will verify the coalition contract with the Green's. (AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil)

GERMANY-POLITICS

BER03-19980620-BERLIN, GERMANY - Supporters of German far-right National Democratic Party NPD in a bus hide behind the flags of their party in order to avoid identification after their protest march, 20 June. The demonstration was originally planned to be held at Berlin landmark the Brandenburg Gate, but was moved to the outskirts of the town to avoid clashes with anti-nazi protestors. EPA PHOTO DPA/KAY NIETFELD

GERMANY-POLITICS

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (L) of the Christian Democratic Party CDU and Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber of the Christian Social Union CSU use different facial impressions during the opening speech of the Bavarian Entrepeneur Congress here 01 July. Kohl and Stoiber would not make any comments concerning the dispute of the European single currency, it was announced. Last week, Stoiber embarrassed the government by calling for a delay in the single currency effective date if the economic convergence criteria are not strictly met.