German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) and Franz Muentefering, former SPD chairman, address a news conference in Berlin September 8, 2008. Germany's conservatives sought to paint their Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners as panicked and unstable after they overhauled their leadership on Sunday, drawing out early battle lines in the run-up to a 2009 election. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY)