BERLIN—Germany moved a small step closer to a potential solution to its political crisis on Thursday after the country’s largest opposition party said it would enter talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives over forging a new government. Ms. Merkel’s attempt to form an unprecedented alliance of conservatives, free-market libertarians and environmentalists collapsed in late November, leaving Europe’s largest economy with a caretaker administration more than two months after an election that yielded no clear majority.

Source: Wall Street Journal December 07, 2017 15:59 UTC