Chairman Kurt Beck of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) addresses a news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin October 5, 2006. Beck, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and party leader Edmund Stoiber of the Christian Social Union (CSU) agreed a deal after their late night chancellery talks to resolve differences threatening to derail one of their key economic reform projects, the restructuring of healthcare financing. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (GERMANY)