Euronews.
By Euronews with AP, AFP
Pressure grew for a quick start to talks on Germany’s next government as newly-elected lawmakers held their first meetings on Tuesday.
The narrow winners of Sunday’s election, the centre-left Social Democrats of Olaf Scholz, underlined their hopes of a quick start to coalition talks
The SPD was in a “grand coalition” with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right Union bloc in the last government but neither formation is keen to renew the power-sharing deal.