18 January 2019, Berlin: Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) sits in the plenary session of the German Bundestag and looks at her smartphone. The main topics of the 74th session of the 19th legislative period are the draft bill of the Federal Government for improvements in transplantation medicine, the Brexit transitional law and the planned amendment of the Federal Immission Control Act to avoid driving bans. Photo: Carsten Koall/dpa