Sentences with phrase «german grand coalition»

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German President Frank - Walter Steinmeier is currently pressuring his party (the SPD) to form a so - called Grand Coalition with the conservatives and avoid the need for snap elections.

German President Frank - Walter Steinmeier is currently pressuring the SPD to form a so - called Grand Coalition

After months of campaigning, leading to an election, followed by weeks of negotiation, the German Social Democrats and Merkel's CDU / CSU have finally agreed to form a grand coalition.

10 pm Update German Elections: Andrew Marshall's Live Blog: MERKEL WINS THIRD TERM: «Whether it's a CDU government or a grand coalition, Merkel's success probably gives her government more wiggle room in terms of any renegotiation with the UK... But there's a huge gap between CDU and Conservative positions on much of the EU issue.»

If the result of the next election is a German - style grand coalition you read it here first.

Mandelson told Gordon Brown in the run up to the pre-budget report last December that Britain should follow the example of the former German SPD / CDU grand coalition which opted for a deferred rise in VAT.

This would have been the preferred option of many Germans, who said before the vote that they would prefer a continuation of the current «grand coalition» between the CDU (and its Bavarian sister party) and the SPD.

Welsh Tory leader Nick Bourne (who blogs here) has long hoped to put his Tory group into a grand coalition but that hope only became feasible when Mike German AM pulled out of talks to put his LibDem group into coalition with Rhodri Morgan's Welsh Labour party.