German Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner is sworn-in by Parliament President Wolfgang Schaeuble in Germany's lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, March 14, 2018. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
HAMBURG (Reuters) - Julia Kloeckner, a senior figure in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party, on Wednesday took over as agriculture minister in Germany’s new government coalition.
Kloeckner replaces Christian Schmidt of the southern conservative CSU party as the new government takes office after almost six months of coalition negotiations.
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