German Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil (R) talks with German Minister for Research, Technology and Aerospace Dorothee Baer (2L) and German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt in front of German State Minister for Federal-State Relations in the Chancellery Philipp Amthor (L) ahead a weekly meeting of the German cabinet at the chancellery in Berlin on August 12, 2026. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP via Getty Images)