After weeks of negotiations, Germany's main political parties have finally reached an agreement to govern together. On Feb. 7, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) settled on a deal to form a coalition government. The agreement focuses mostly on domestic policies, but it also sends mixed messages about Germany's views of the European Union's future, indicating a number of compromises between the SPD, which supports greater spending and risk sharing in the bloc, and the CDU and CSU, which are skeptical of measures that would have a negative impact on Germany's coffers....
