On Saturday, Friedrich Merz, the potential future chancellor of Germany, disclosed that the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has achieved a preliminary agreement with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to form a coalition government. The negotiations will now advance to the following, more crucial phase of full-scale coalition talks. The objective is to establish a government by mid-April, six months after the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s administration on November 6, 2024. Morgan Ayre, a journalist with France24, has the latest updates.

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