Wolfgang Schaeuble (front), chairman of scandal-stricken opposition Christian Democratic Union party CDU attends a parliamentary session of Germany's lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin February 16. In rear are L-R Michael Glos of Bavaria's Christian Social Union party CSU, Angela Merkel, CDU secretary general and Karl Lamers of the CDU. Schaeuble resigned from his post earlier today and said that he will not candidate as CDU chairman at the upcoming CDU congress in April this year.

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