Some of them voiced suspicions that the pro-business party had never really believed in their political enterprise in the first place. Exactly which of his party’s red lines the coalition talks had overstepped, Lindner has been unable to convincingly explain. Green party co-leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt on Monday claimed that the FDP had called off the talks in spite of victories in key policy areas. Angela Merkel meets German president as coalition talks fail Read moreAnd yet the coalition talks of the last month have shown that a “Jamaica” coalition – so nicknamed because the colours of the Greens, the CDU and the FDP mirror those of the Jamaican flag – would likely have been an unstable one, filled with distrust and prone to imminent collapse. The Guardian view on Germany’s political crisis: the start of the post-Merkel era?

Source: The Guardian November 20, 2017 14:11 UTC