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Four months after vote, Merkel in final lap of coalition talks

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel will on Friday begin a final stretch of negotiations with Germany’s second biggest party to form a government, four months after an inconclusive election left the country in political limbo. Merkel will meet with Social Democrat leader Martin Schulz and the chief of her Bavarian allies, Horst Seehofer, at 0800 GMT, sources close to the talks told AFP. As Germany’s European partners are beginning to be weary over the long-running […]

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Ruling party, opposition both claim victory in Macedonia polls

by Jasmina Mironski and Rachel O’Brien Agence France Presse SKOPJE, Macedonnia (AFP) — Macedonia’s ruling conservative party and the opposition Social Democrats both claimed victory in snap elections held Sunday in the hope of solving a two-year long deep political crisis. “We won once again. Tonight, today on December 11, the 10th victory in a row,” Vlatko Gjorcev, a senior official of former prime minister Nikola Gruevski’s VMRO-DPMNE told supporters at the party’s headquarters. However, […]

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