Wednesday, October 25, 2017

First day of new Bundestag

The new German parliament sat yesterday for the first time.

The new Bundestag president is Wolfgang Schäuble, who first entered parliament in 1972. He is the former German finance minister.

This is the largest ever Bundestag with 709 members.

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