"waving" again

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Hamburg's Mayor Ole von Beust wave to the audience as they arrive for the "Strong Family - Strong State" congress during an election campaign rally of the Christian Democratic Union party CDU in Hamburg January 18, 2008 . Regional state elections will be held in Hamburg on February 24, 2008 with Mayor Ole von Beust as top candidate of the CDU.REUTERS/Morris Mac Matzen (GERMANY)

More "waving"

German Chancellor Angela Merkel waves as Lower Saxony federal state Prime Minister Christian Wulff (R) claps during an election campaign rally of the Christian Democratic Union party CDU in Osnabrueck January 21, 2008. Regional state elections will be held in Lower Saxony on January 27 with Wulff as top candidate of the CDU.REUTERS/Ina Fassbender (GERMANY)

Wake up, Angie

German Chancellor Angela Merkel follows the speech of Bill Gates during the Government Leaders Forum, organized by the company Microsoft, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.(AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Deja Vu

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) smiles as Polish border police and German federal police lift up the border gate on the German-Polish border checkpoint in the eastern German town of Zittau December 21, 2007. Frontiers in east Europe once guarded by machineguns and barbed wire in the Cold War fell away on Friday as nine mostly former communist states joined the EU's border-free zone amid fireworks, cheers and music. The extension of the European Union's so-called Schengen zone brought in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Malta, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY)

Angie and buddy heil

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and Hesse state Prime Minister Roland Koch wave at the start of a Christian Democratic CDU party electoral campaign in Wiesbaden January 4 ,2008. Merkel came to the defence of a top conservative ally on Friday who has outraged immigrants and rival parties by urging a crackdown on youth crime and suggesting it is fuelled by foreigners. Koch, who is trying to win a third term as premier of the western state of Hesse, unveiled a six-point programme this week to combat youth crime which included proposals that would make it easier to deport young criminals.REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (GERMANY)

Hesse's state Prime Minister Roland Koch and German Chancellor Angela Merkel wave to the audience at the end of an election campaign in Wetzlar, January 13, 2008. Koch will start as his conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) top candidate for the upcoming state elections in Hesse, January 27.REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY)