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Three days after the election and the gloss is rapidly coming off Angela Merkel’s return to power.
With the SPD seizing their opportunity to dictate terms for a coalition Merkel is faced with a real dilemma with limited options
1) Form a coalition with the SPD but concede that her hard line on austerity and the euro will be have to be diluted
2) Form a coalition with the Greens/A N Other but face the fact that it would be a fragile majority
3) Return to the polling booths for another election in…
With the SPD seizing their opportunity to dictate terms for a coalition Merkel is faced with a real dilemma with limited options
1) Form a coalition with the SPD but concede that her hard line on austerity and the euro will be have to be diluted
2) Form a coalition with the Greens/A N Other but face the fact that it would be a fragile majority
3) Return to the polling booths for another election in…