By Euro Weekly News Media • Published: 17 Oct 2013 • 14:06
BERLIN (Reuters) – Leaders from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) agreed at a meeting on Thursday to recommend to their parties that they enter full-blown coalition negotiations, two participants told Reuters.
The move comes a day after the environmentalist Greens ended exploratory talks with Merkel’s conservatives, leaving a ‘grand coalition’ with the SPD as the only real alternative for the chancellor.
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