Merkel enters final stretch in coalition-building marathon
German chancellor's CDU still needs to untangle key issues with rival SPD but a deal could finally be in sight
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GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives entered coalition talks on Sunday with knotty issues still to untangle with their historic centre-left rivals, but a deal could finally be in sight.
More than four months after an election beating for both parties, "the coalition agreement is gradually coming into shape" between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Merkel's chief whip Michael Grosse-Broemer said late on Saturday.
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