DEU, Deutschland, Germany, Berlin, 14.03.2018 Angela Merkel, Bundeskanzlerin und Bundesvorsitzende der CDU, vor der konstituierenden Kabinettssitzung im Berliner Kanzleramt. Das neue Kabinett tritt nach der Wahl der Bundeskanzlerin und der Minister zum ersten Mal zusammen. Angela Merkel, Chancellor and Chairwoman of the German Christian Democrats CDU, during a cabinet meeting at the chancellor office in Berlin, Germany. The first meeting of new German government cabinet takes place on March 14, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Members of the new German government, a coalition between Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD), were sworn in today and will begin work immediately. The new government took the longest to create of any government in modern German history following elections last September that left the German Christian Democrats (CDU) as the strongest party but with too few votes in order to have a strong hand in determining the next coalition.