Parties Struggle To Find Consensus In Preliminary Coalition Talks

BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 19: Cem Oezdemir and Katrin Goering-Eckardt of the German Greens Party attend preliminary coalition talks at the Baden-Wuerttemberg state representation on November 19, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. The German Christian Democrats (CDU), its sister party the Bavarian Christian Democrats (CSU), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens Party (Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen) have been slogging through three weeks of talks that have been characterized by a reluctance for compromise on certain key issues, making the outcome uncertain. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)