Bundestag Meets For First Time Since Coalition Failure
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Bundestag Meets For First Time Since Coalition Failure
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German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel...German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel attends the first Bundestag session since the collapse of government coalition talks on November 21, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Preliminary coalition talks, after over three weeks of arduous meetings, fell apart Sunday night, leaving Merkel confronted with two uncomfortable possibilities: attempt to run a minority government together with the German Greens Party or submit to new elections. Both would be a first at the federal level in post-World War II German history.
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Bundestag Meets For First Time Since Coalition Failure
November 21, 2017 License
German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel...German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel attends the first Bundestag session since the collapse of government coalition talks on November 21, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Preliminary coalition talks, after over three weeks of arduous meetings, fell apart Sunday night, leaving Merkel confronted with two uncomfortable possibilities: attempt to run a minority government together with the German Greens Party or submit to new elections. Both would be a first at the federal level in post-World War II German history.2of 10
Bundestag Meets For First Time Since Coalition Failure
November 21, 2017 License
German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel...German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel (L) speaks with Paul Ziemiak, head of the Junge Union, the youth party of the CDU, as she attends the first Bundestag session since the collapse of government coalition talks on November 21, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Preliminary coalition talks, after over three weeks of arduous meetings, fell apart Sunday night, leaving Merkel confronted with two uncomfortable possibilities: attempt to run a minority government together with the German Greens Party or submit to new elections. Both would be a first at the federal level in post-World War II German history.3of 10
Bundestag Meets For First Time Since Coalition Failure
November 21, 2017 License
Martin Schulz, leader of the Social democrats party (SPD) speaks for the first time...Martin Schulz, leader of the Social democrats party (SPD) speaks for the first time during the first session of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since the collapse of government coalition talks on November 21, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Preliminary coalition talks, after over three weeks of arduous meetings, fell apart Sunday night, leaving Merkel confronted with two uncomfortable possibilities: attempt to run a minority government together with the German Greens Party or submit to new elections. Both would be a first at the federal level in post-World War II German history.4of 10
Bundestag Meets For First Time Since Coalition Failure
November 21, 2017 License
German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel...German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel speaks with Paul Ziemiak, chairman of the young associacion of the CDU party during the first session of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since the collapse of government coalition talks on November 21, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Preliminary coalition talks, after over three weeks of arduous meetings, fell apart Sunday night, leaving Merkel confronted with two uncomfortable possibilities: attempt to run a minority government together with the German Greens Party or submit to new elections. Both would be a first at the federal level in post-World War II German history.5of 10
Bundestag Meets For First Time Since Coalition Failure
November 21, 2017 License
German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel...German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel pauses during the first session of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since the collapse of government coalition talks on November 21, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Preliminary coalition talks, after over three weeks of arduous meetings, fell apart Sunday night, leaving Merkel confronted with two uncomfortable possibilities: attempt to run a minority government together with the German Greens Party or submit to new elections. Both would be a first at the federal level in post-World War II German history.6of 10
Bundestag Meets For First Time Since Coalition Failure
November 21, 2017 License
German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel...German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel arrives at the Reichstag for the first session of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since the collapse of government coalition talks on November 21, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Preliminary coalition talks, after over three weeks of arduous meetings, fell apart Sunday night, leaving Merkel confronted with two uncomfortable possibilities: attempt to run a minority government together with the German Greens Party or submit to new elections. Both would be a first at the federal level in post-World War II German history.7of 10
Bundestag Meets For First Time Since Coalition Failure
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German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen makes a hands gesture nearly identical...German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen makes a hands gesture nearly identical to one that German Chancellor Angela Merkel often shows during the second Bundestag session since the collapse of government coalition talks on November 22, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Preliminary coalition talks, after over three weeks of arduous meetings, fell apart Sunday night, leaving Merkel confronted with two uncomfortable possibilities: attempt to run a minority government together with the German Greens Party or submit to new elections. Both would be a first at the federal level in post-World War II German history.8of 10
Bundestag Meets For First Time Since Coalition Failure
November 21, 2017 License
German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel...German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel (R) speaks with Katrin Goering-Eckardt (L) of the German Greens Party (Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen) at the first Bundestag session since the collapse of government coalition talks on November 21, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Preliminary coalition talks, after over three weeks of arduous meetings, fell apart Sunday night, leaving Merkel confronted with two uncomfortable possibilities: attempt to run a minority government together with the German Greens Party or submit to new elections. Both would be a first at the federal level in post-World War II German history.9of 10
Bundestag Meets For First Time Since Coalition Failure
November 21, 2017 License
German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel...German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel attends the first Bundestag session since the collapse of government coalition talks on November 21, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Preliminary coalition talks, after over three weeks of arduous meetings, fell apart Sunday night, leaving Merkel confronted with two uncomfortable possibilities: attempt to run a minority government together with the German Greens Party or submit to new elections. Both would be a first at the federal level in post-World War II German history.10of 10
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