German Chancellor Angela Merkel (1st R) and German Vice-Chancellor and minister of economics and energy Sigmar Gabriel (2nd R) attend the meeting of Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, in Berlin, Germany on Dec. 17, 2013. German new government headed by Chancellor Angela Merkel was sworn into office on Tuesday to rule Europe's biggest economy for the next four years. Cabinet ministers of the new coalition government, are formed by Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party Chrisitian Social Union (CSU), and the Social Democrats (SPD). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan) |