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Germany: Fellow leaders left twitchy as Merkel fails to settle coalition
EUROPEAN leaders got the jitters yesterday over prospects of a snap German election after coalition government talks collapsed on Sunday night.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned of “incomprehension and great concern inside and outside our country … if the political forces in the biggest and economically strongest country in Europe of all places don’t fulfil their responsibility.”
Germany may have to hold a second general election if Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens cannot agree to share power.
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