Chancellor Angela Merkel finally reached a deal today to form a new German coalition government, handing the powerful finance ministry to the country's main center-left party in an agreement aimed at ending months of political gridlock. The center-left Social Democrats' leaders now have one last major hurdle to overcome, winning their skeptical members' approval of the deal. Today he declared that, with the coalition deal, Germany "will return to an active and leading role in the European Union." Also read Split Social Democrats could sink Angela Merkel's coalition plansBefore addressing Europe's future, Schulz faces hard work at home. Merkel's party would keep the defense ministry and get the economy and energy ministry, held by the Social Democrats in the outgoing government.

Source: dna February 07, 2018 17:48 UTC