Germany: Greens pair with the Saxony coalition

Shortly before the end of the year a coalition of Christian Democrats (CDU), Social Democrats (SDPs) and Greens is sworn in by Sachsen's new government to run a government in the East German State for the first time.

After those in Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg, it was the third state-government coalition and the first three-party coalition in Sachsen. In September's state elections the previously governing CDU-SPD coalition ....