Germany's Chancellor Merkel speaks with Kretschmann, Prime Minister of the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg,...
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with Winfried Kretschmann, Prime Minister of the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, after Joachim Gauck was elected German president at Germany's Federal Assembly in Berlin, March 18, 2012. German lawmakers elected Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor and human rights activist from communist East Germany, as president of the European Union's largest country on Sunday by a large majority in a first round of voting. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)