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Schulz: Macron keeps calling me to join coalition
By EUobserver
Centre-left SPD leader Martin Schulz has told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper that he has received multiple phone calls from French president Emmanuel Macron, calling on him to join a coalition with Germany's two centre-right Christian Democrat parties. Other left-leaning European leaders have also asked Schulz to strike a deal with chancellor Angela Merkel, like Greece's left-wing leader Alexis Tsipras texting Schulz advice. The SPD suffered a historic election defeat.