German SPD gives greenlight to formal coalition talks with Merkel

German Social Democratic Party (SPD) chairman Martin Schulz delivers a speech during a special congress of German Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Bonn, Germany, on Jan. 21, 2018. Delegates from Germany's center-left Social Democratic Party on Sunday voted in favor of formal coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel-led Conservatives Union. (Xinhua/Yuan Shuai)