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Germany's Saarland State Premier Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is elected secretary general of the Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) at a congress in Berlin where the party voted to approve the coalition deal between the conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD). IMAGES
British Prime Minister Theresa May is momentarily locked in her car while German Chancellor Angela Merkel awaits to welcome her in Berlin. The embattled leader is on a tour of European capitals in a desperate bid to salvage her Brexit deal, a day after delaying a parliamentary vote on the text to avoid a crushing defeat. IMAGES
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives in Sicily for the G7 Summit. IMAGES
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves the German Chancellory after formally handing over power to her successor Olaf Scholz. Merkel, wearing a corona mask, sits in the back of a car as chancellery employees applaud her after four consecutive terms, 16 years, in office. IMAGES
In Berlin, Angela Merkel receives flowers from Germany's new Chancellor Olaf Scholz as she leaves the political stage after 16 years. Often described as austere and even robotic, Social Democrat Olaf Scholz nonetheless managed to inspire German voters in this year's election with a campaign that played on his reputation as a safe pair of hands. IMAGES
Members of the German Bundestag give Chancellor Angela Merkel a long standing ovation as she is due to leave office and to be replaced by Social Democrat Olaf Scholz. IMAGES