What We're Tracking Germany's federal election. When Germans go to the polls Sept. 26, they are likely to produce a very fragmented Bundestag in which a coalition of at least three parties is needed to form a government. Chancellor Angela Merkel will remain as a caretaker for weeks, if not months, until a coalition emerges. The new government will have to decide on issues ranging from fiscal policy and climate change to relations with China, Russia and the United States. The presidents of Russia and Turkey meet. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Russian resort town of Sochi on Sept. 29. The two leaders will speak of matters including security cooperation amid several issues heightening bilateral tensions, including clashes in Idlib, Syria, as well as recent comments by Erdogan at the U.N. General Assembly about Ukraine's territorial integrity.