Stock Photo - 10 June 2022, Berlin: Hendrik Wüst (CDU, l-r), Minister President in North Rhine-Westphalia, Andreas Bovenschulte (SPD), Mayor of Bremen, and Malu Dreyer (SPD), Minister President in Rhineland-Palatinate, talk in the Bundesrat at the start of the session of the chamber of the Länder. Topics include amendment to the Basic Law on the planned special assets of the German armed forces, 2022 budget, pension increase and new statutory minimum wage, care bonus, further Corona tax aid and moratorium on Hartz IV sanctions, Länder initiative to tax excess profits of energy companies, ordinance on minimum standards of broadband supply. In the background, Florian Herrmann (CSU), Bavarian State Minister for Federal Affairs and Media. Photo: Wolfgang Kumm/dpa. - Berlin/Berlin/Germany