Germany's CDU/CSU and SPD leaders sign coalition agreement for new government

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Germany's CDU/CSU and SPD leaders sign coalition agreement for new government  CDU party leader Friedrich Merz, set to be sworn in as Germany's new chancellor, pledged that the three parties would "vigorously get to work."  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/05/05/cducsu-and-spd-have-signed-coalition-agreement  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Representatives for Germany's CDU, CSU and SPD parties have formally signed their coalition agreement.

00:09The government is to be sworn in on Tuesday with CDU leader Friedrich Merz as the country's new chancellor.

00:16The coalition has a relatively modest majority with 328 of the Bundestag's 630 seats

00:43and aims to spur economic growth, ramp up defense spending, take a tougher approach to migration and catch up on long-neglected modernization.

00:52The Union and Social Democrats have governed Germany together before in the 1960s

00:57and more recently in three of the four terms of former Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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