BERLIN, GERMANY – FEBRUARY 21: Peer Steinbrueck, chancellor candidate of the German Social Democrats (SPD) speaks after German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a government declaration on the forthcoming European Union budget that was agreed upon at a summit in Brussels recently on February 21, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The budget required wrangling and compromises and will give more money to economically-stricken member state.Germany faces federal elections later this year. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
