Merkel says to begin three-way German coalition talks next week

Chancellor Angela Merkel said her conservative bloc would begin exploratory talks next week on forming a three-way German coalition government with the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) and the environmentalist Greens. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), would hold talks with the FDP and Greens separately next Wednesday, she said. "Then on Friday, October 20th we will have a first round of exploratory talks with all partners," Merkel told a joint news conference with CSU leader Horst Seehofer on Monday.

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