CDU and CSU's traditional Ash Wednesday meeting
Armin Laschet, federal state Premier of North Rhine-Westphalia and leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), gestures as he speaks from the CDU headquarters in Duesseldorf, Germany, with the Bavarian state Prime Minister Markus Soeder of the CDU's sister party Christian Social Union party (CSU), during the traditional Ash Wednesday meeting of the CSU, held virtually this year due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Passau, Germany, February 17, 2021. Federico Gambarini/Pool via REUTERS