Merkel Enters Concrete SPD Talks as Finance Post Looms
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Social Democrats are entering their first week of negotiating the substance of a new government with the fight for control of the finance ministry looming in the background.
With more than a dozen working groups haggling over the details, the main 75 negotiators from Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, her CSU Bavarian sister party and the SPD will meet again on Oct. 30 in Berlin to discuss European policy.