German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) shakes hands with her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party's secretary general Peter Tauber (L) as they arrive for a meeting with their party's leadership in Berlin on September 25, 2016, one day after general elections. Merkel woke up to a fourth term but now faces the double headache of an emboldened hard-right opposition party and thorny coalition talks ahead. / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN