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German coalition talks will be difficult

Open Europe's Leopold Traugott tells Al Jazeera that the German coalition talks will be difficult but if Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU and Martin Schulz's SPD are both flexible, Germany will see another Grand Coalition

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Leopold Traugott

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7 January 2018

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German coalition talks will be difficult

Leopold Traugott

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