FILE - In this Tuesday, April 30, 1991 file photo, former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl stands behind former Women and Youth Minister and current Chancellor Angela Merkel prior to a cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Bonn, Germany. Twenty years after the unification of East and West Germany, old habits still die hard with even Chancellor Merkel confessing she still can't shed some of her East German tendencies. Merkel, who grew up in communist East Germany, still washes her laundry with East German "fit" detergent, prepares East Germans' favorite Soljanka soup, an often eclectic mix of ingredients like sausage, cabbage and sour cream in a pickle juice broth for supper and can't fight a predilection to hoard food and other goods. (AP Photo/Fritz Reiss, File)