Peer Steinbrueck (L), chancellor candidate of the German Social Democrats (SPD), and Petra Ernstberger (R), MP SPD, during a debate on the Annual Economic Report 2013 of the Federal Government at Reichstag, the seat of the German Parliament (Bundestag), on January 17, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. German Economics Minister Philipp Roesler warned that a short-term deal with the euro crisis through inflation, stating that it's not 'A price we are not willing to pay - the price of monetary stability' in his inaugural speech to the annual economic report in parliament. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) will face an electoral test this Sunday as voters go to the polls in Lower Saxony.