Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting and leader of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) Friedrich Merz raises his hand as he attends an extraordinary session of the outgoing lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, for a vote to adopt the draft law brought by the SPD and CDU/CSU parliamentary groups to reform constitutional debt rules and set up a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund, in Berlin, Germany March 18, 2025. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse