German leaders set for Chancellor summit

Germany’s top political leaders were to meet today at a summit aimed at resolving their two-and-a-half-week stand-off over who will lead the country, with Angela Merkel’s conservatives hopeful Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will let go of the top job.

Schroeder and Franz Muentefering, the chairman of the chancellor’s Social Democrats, were expected to meet this evening with Merkel and her fellow conservative leader Edmund Stoiber.