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Vice-President of the European Parliament and Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) top candidate for the european elections Katarina Barley (2ndL) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (3rdR) shake hands as Germany's Social Democratic SPD party co-leader Lars Klingbeil (L), PES President Stefan Lofven (3rdL) and The European Commissioner for Jobs and Social rights and top candidate of the Party of European Socialists (PES) for the upcoming European Union elections Nicolas Schmit (2ndR) react during the congress of Germany's Social Democratic SPD Party "Democracy congress for Europe" in Berlin, Germany, on May 4, 2024, (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)