Greens agree to talk to Merkel

GERMANY’S Greens have agreed to hold talks on forming a new government with Angela Merkel’s conservatives after a leading member of Merkel’s party called a link with the environmentalist group “a realistic option”.

The Greens, an ecologist and pacifist party that grew out of the protest movement of the 1960s, said they would meet the Christian Democrats and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) tomorrow, although party chiefs said much separated the two camps.

Greens co-leader Claudia Roth said: “We are extremely sceptical.”