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		</div><p>Germany’s Greens have signalled that negotiations to form a new governing coalition are progressing slowly and differences remain over climate policy.</p>
<p>The environmental party last month entered negotiations with the centre-left Social Democrats and the business-friendly Free Democrats on a new government after all three parties made gains in Germany’s September 26 election.</p>
<p>The alliance, in which Social Democrat Olaf Scholz would become chancellor, would send outgoing chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right Union bloc into opposition.</p>
<p>The parties said at the time that they hoped to have a coalition agreement ready at the end of November and have Mr Scholz take office in the week beginning December 6.</p>
<p>But the Greens are raising questions over whether that timetable will hold.</p>
<p>The party’s general secretary, Michael Kellner, told news agency dpa on Thursday that “we are seeing too little progress at the moment as far as substance is concerned”.</p>
<p>The Greens’ co-leader Annalena Baerbock told RBB Inforadio on Friday that she cannot say when a coalition agreement will be ready because it is not yet clear when negotiations on several central issues will wrap up.</p>
<p>She said: “It doesn’t come down to four days more or less in the talks – we must take the time we need so that we can really renew Germany in the next four years.”</p>
<p>It is no surprise that the negotiations, which outwardly have been unexpectedly harmonious, are proving tricky.</p>
<p>The potential alliance brings together two traditionally left-leaning parties with one, the Free Democrats, that has tended to ally with the centre-right.</p>
<p>A preliminary agreement last month left a lot of open questions. It called for Germany to accelerate its exit from coal-fuelled power, currently due by 2038, so it “ideally” happens by 2030, and speed up “drastically” the expansion of renewable energy generation.</p>
<p>The prospective partners said they won’t raise taxes or loosen curbs on running up debt, at the Free Democrats’ insistence, making financing a central issue.</p>
<p>Ms Baerbock would not detail where exactly there are differences. But she said that protecting the climate must be a priority across the government, including policy areas such as construction and transport.</p>
<p>“A climate government can’t be carried by only one partner,” Ms Baerbock said.</p>
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