Social Democrats Under Increasing Pressure To Reconsider Coalition

BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 23: Martin Schulz, Chairman of the German Social Democrats (SPD), departs after meeting with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Schloss Bellevue presidential palace over the future of the next German government on November 23, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Following German federal elections last September Shulz had vowed that the SPD would not join the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) in another grand coalition, though the recent failure of coalition talks between the CDU/CSU, the Greens Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) is leading to increasing pressure, both from within the SPD and without, on Schulz to reconsider. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)