Chancellor Angela Merkel faced pressure from inside her conservative bloc Sunday to aim for a quick coalition deal with center-left rivals without conceding too much ground on core issues such as immigration. Talks between Merkel's conservative bloc and two smaller parties to form a previously untried coalition collapsed a week ago. On Sunday, the youth wing of Merkel's Union bloc published a resolution stating that the conservatives must not enter a coalition "at any price." Merkel's conservatives have pushed to curb migrant flows and are keen to ensure that Germany sticks to a balanced budget. The Social Democrats, smarting from a disastrous result in September, have made clear they would demand a high price for cooperating again with Merkel's Union bloc.

Source: ABC News November 26, 2017 10:18 UTC