While most attention last week was focused on the daunting task facing Wolfgang Schäuble as Angela Merkel’s newly appointed finance minister, some of the cabinet’s less well-known faces will confront equally stiff challenges over the coming months.
Norbert Röttgen, 44, from the chancellor’s Christian Democratic Union, will have to hit the ground running. A close economic adviser to Ms Merkel since her time in opposition, Mr Röttgen, formerly CDU chief whip, will have to represent his country in December at the United Nations Copenhagen summit on climate change.
