Photo de stock - German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C-R) and French President Francois Hollande (C-L) stand together during a group photograph for the 17th German-French Council of Ministers with members of both governments in the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, 31 March 2015. Among them are, first row (L-R): French Finance Minister Michel Sapin, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, French Economics Minister Emmanuel Macron, German Minister of Economics and Energy Sigmar Gabriel , French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, French Minister of Culture and Communication Fleur Pellerin and the Mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, as the authorized representative of German-French cultural relations. Second row (L-R): German Minister for Education and Research, Johanna Wanka and her French counterpart Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, German Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection Heiko Maas and his French counterpart Christiane Taubira, German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen and her French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Barbara Hendricks (SPD) and her French counterpart Segolene Royal, and German Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Alexander Dobrindt. Third row (L-R): Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office, Michael Roth, French Secretary of State for European Affairs Harlem Desir, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Joerg Asmussen, the French Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Francois Rebsamen, the German Ambassador to France, Susanne Marianne Wasum-Rainer, and the French Ambassador to Germany, Philippe Etienne. Photo: BRITTA PEDERSEN/dpa | usage worldwide. - Berlin/Berlin/Germany