German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and SPD chairman Franz Muentefering (L) address the media following talks with the Angela Merkel, leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and Bavarian state Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber in Berlin September 22, 2005. Angela Merkel's conservatives and Gerhard Schroeder Social Democrats clashed over who had won Germany's election ahead of coalition talks designed to resolve seemingly insurmountable differences between the rival camps. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann AKW/CVI