German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) is seen through the window speaking on the phone at the Chancellery with German Chief of Staff Wolfgang Schmidt (2nd L) in Berlin before a coalition committe meeting on November 6, 2024. A crisis rocking the German Chancellor's fractious three-party coalition is headed for a potential crunch point on November 6, 2024, amid fears the government could collapse. Discord on how to revive a flagging economy and carve up a tight budget has flared between Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) and his junior partners, the Greens and the Free Democrats (FDP). (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP) (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)