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Skip next section What's in the coalition agreement? April 9, 2025 What's in the coalition agreement? In their 144-page coalition contract , Germany's two big centrist parties have vowed the following ...

The agreement was concluded relatively quickly but still took about six and half weeks, during which the country had been ...