The EU's motor stalls
As Germany's parties start the bartering to see who will form the next government, European Union policymakers are worried about a serious Europe-wide fallout from Germany's post-election deadlock, fearing a damaging impact on the bloc's hopes for economic recovery and political revival. As speculation grew of a possible 'grand coalition' between Angela Merkel's conservatives and Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats, officials in Brussels said a government in Berlin composed of strange bedfellows would not provide much-needed decisive political leadership to the rest of the E.U. Europe, struggling to rev up its economy and meet global competitive challenges, needed a Germany in full gear, an E.U. diplomat told Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
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