German Greens Flag Policy Clash After Talks With Merkel Bloc
- Potential coalition partners ‘rather far apart,’ Baerbock says
- Greens, FDP parties to mull over options through Wednesday
Armin Laschet, chancellor candidate for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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Germany’s Greens highlighted major policy differences with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrat-led bloc after they sounded each other out on forming a three-way coalition with the Free Democrats.
Merkel’s conservatives are still hoping to lead a government under their chancellor candidate Armin Laschet despite their narrow defeat to Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats in last month’s national election.