Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) voted to confirm the coalition deal it reached with Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens. The FDP is planning to hold a convention tomorrow, while the Greens plan to make a decision on Monday
The coalition, the first at federal level between the ideologically differenct Greens, the libertarian Free Democrats (FDP) and Olaf Scholz's centre-left SPD, will end 16 years of conservative governments led by Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Meanwhile chancellor Angela Merkel published her last Video-Podcast. Since 2006 she appeared in more than 600 video-podcasts to various topics. In her last message is stressed the importance of vaccination against Covid amid the threat of the new Omicron variant.