BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called for speedy efforts to form a stable new government with Social Democrats (SPD) and said her conservative party saw areas of common ground on domestic reform and Europe.
Merkel said renewing the "grand coalition" that ruled Germany for the past four years was a "historic necessity" that would best position Germany to work with France to strengthen the European Union before the next European elections in 2019.
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