Tag: #PensionReforms

  • Merkel’s coalition avoids crisis over pensions

    Berlin, Nov 11 (AFP/APP): The German coalition parties on Sunday reached a deal on pension reform, thus avoiding a political crisis which threatened to collapse the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. After difficult talks, Merkel’s conservative CDU and its Bavarian partner the CSU agreed with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on a deal on topping…