German Chancellor Angela Merkel comes back to the plenum after she was handed her letter of appointment for special session at the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) on March 14, 2018 in Berlin.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, bruised by half a year of post-election coalition haggling, was narrowly confirmed by parliament to her fourth and likely final term at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy. / AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZ