Overview
- Senior representatives from the three parties met in a top-level 'Dachgruppe' and set up specialist 'Facharbeitsgruppen' to negotiate policy area by policy area.
- The talks move beyond exploratory 'Sondierungen' but leave many detailed questions open, and party leaders say collapse of the talks remains possible.
- The Greens and SPD had already approved entering formal negotiations, and Die Linke’s party congress voted by a wide margin to begin talks.
- Previous incidents within Die Linke and disputes over how to address antisemitism have complicated the process and drawn criticism across Germany.
- Negotiators plan intensive topic-by-topic talks that could take weeks or months to resolve and will decide whether Berlin can secure a stable Rot‑Grün‑Rot governing agreement.