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Without naming a date, the German Chancellor said that she would visit Paris ahead of an EU summit late next week, to meet Macron.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has congratulated the SPD for its "clear result".
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Chancellor Angela Merkel faced criticism from within the ranks of her own conservatives on Thursday for making concessions to her centre-left Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners to seal a governing alliance a day earlier.
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More than four months after the national election, Europe`s largest economy remains in political limbo without a new govt.
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Even after four months of the general election, Berlin is still waiting to have a new govt.
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Members of Germany`s Social Democrats (SPD) will likely approve a renewed coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel`s conservatives if party leaders present a convincing proposal, a member of the party`s executive leadership said on Saturday.
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But surveys ahead of the vote showed the centre-left party running neck-and-neck with Merkel`s Christian Democratic Union, with some even placing the CDU ahead.
The result leaves the CDU short of sufficient support to rule alone in the state, but means the SPD cannot continue to govern in coalition with the Greens and the South Schleswig Party (SSW), which represents the ethnic Danish minority.
Germany`s Martin Schulz said on Thursday he would step down as head of the European Parliament and return to national politics in elections next year.
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The German economy is humming, the budget is balanced, unemployment is down, and her country is widely seen as the strongest voice in a troubled EU.
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