Germany: CDU/CSU and SPD to begin formal coalition negotiations | DW News

The parties negotiating Germany's next coalition government have reached an agreement in their exploratory talks, conservative bloc leader Friedrich Merz said on Saturday. Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavaria-only sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) will now move to formal negotiations to form a government with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz, the parties agreed.

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00:00 CDU/CSU and SPD to begin formal coalition negotiations
00:55 Alex Gerst, DW Correspondent

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