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Merkel's party embraces SPD coalition talks
By EUobserver
The centre-right CDU and CSU sister parties in Germany have agreed to pursue coalition talks with the centre-left SPD. The 'Grand Coalition' was "the best option for Germany - better anyway than a coalition with the Free Democrats and Greens, new elections or a minority government," Horst Seehofer, the CSU leader, said on Sunday. Fifty two percent of Germans also favoured the model, an Emnid poll said.