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Merkel starts coalition talks

October 20, 2017

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has started her first full round of talks to piece together an unprecedented multi-party national governing coalition. Political differences between her conservative CDU, the business-friendly FDP and the Greens are significant - but so is the pressure to succeed.

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