Merkel doesn’t have a `Grand Coalition,’ lawmaker says
By Bloomberg
14 February 2018 |
3:30 pm
Gesine Loetzsch, a lawmaker from Germany's Die Linke party, discusses Chancellor Angela Merkel's efforts to end months of political deadlock by forming a government.
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