German Economy and Climate Change Minister Robert Habeck of the Greens party addresses the media with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (not pictured) in front of the Chancellery after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked German Finance Minister Christian Lindner following a meeting with the heads of the so-called "Traffic Light Coalition" of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens and Lindner's Free Democratic Party (FDP), in Berlin, Germany, November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) -German opposition parties and business groups on Thursday urged Chancellor Olaf Scholz to trigger a new election quickly to minimise political uncertainty after his rocky three-way coalition collapsed.
The coalition fell apart on Wednesday when years of tensions culminated in a row over how to plug a multi-billion-euro hole in the budget and revive Europe's largest economy, headed for its second year of contraction.
