Berlin's Mayor Kai Wegner pays his respects in front of a photo showing German politician Wolfgang Schaeuble at the Red Town Hall in Berlin, Germany on December 28, 2023, who had died overnight of December 27. Wolfgang Schaeuble, one of the most important figures in German politics for decades and an icon of budgetary rigour in the eurozone, has died aged 81, the German parliament said on Wednesday, December 27. Schaeuble was a minister under chancellors Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel and had played a key role in German reunification in 1990. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)